Dzhermen Mikhailovich Gvishiani (24 December 1928, Akhaltsikhe – 18 May 2003, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian philosopher, sociologist, management theorist and scientific administrator.
Granddaughter, Ekaterina Semenikhina, art collector and Russian honorary consul in Monaco.
Gvishiani graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1951 and became a member of the Communist Party in the same year.
However, when the organisation was superseded by the State Committee for Science and Technology in 1965, he was appointed Deputy Chairman under Vladimir Kirillin.
Gvishiani was a member of the United Nations Advisory Committee on Science and Technology (ACAST) since its inception in 1964.