Mr. Zurab Pataradze is a Georgian diplomat and government official who was elected as the Chairman of the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara on 15 July 2016.

Born in Batumi, Mr. Pataradze graduated from the Tbilisi State University with a degree in economics in 1994 and the Batumi State University with a degree in law in 2007. After working for a Batumi-based bank office in the mid-1990s, Pataradze joined the state service in 1996, first at an anti-organized crime unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Adjara and then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia in 2000. In 2004 Mr. Pataradze became a second secretary at the Georgian embassy to Russia in charge of consular service. Mr. Pataradze was then Georgia's consul general in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki from 2009 to 2010, consul general to Istanbul from 2011 to 2012, ambassador to Turkey from 2012 to 2013, and ambassador to Kazakhstan from 2013 to 2016.