Lado Gurgenidze's never-ending roadshow

It caused a certain amount of surprise in financial circles when Lado Gurgenidze was made prime minister of Georgia in November 2007. Julian Evans caught up with him recently in Tallinn, Estonia.

Lado Gurgenidze is a well-known figure in east European finance – a former head of CIS corporate finance at ABN Amro, who then re-located from London to Tbilisi in 2004 to become CEO of the Bank of Georgia, which he turned into the country’s leading private bank and the only Georgian company to list on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The company is the pride of Georgia, having attracted over 200 institutional investors, and appreciated over 1,000% since flotation.