[1][2] Melua was born in a small village near Paris, Leuville-sur-Orge, where a part of Georgian political emigration settled in 1922 after the Red Army invaded the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
[1] Melua had a scientific, technical, and business career in the field of information systems in four companies, IBM; Brown, Boveri & Cie; Banque Populaire; and BNP Paribas.
[12] Melua received his first official press card in 1959 from a regional newspaper, La Gazette de l’Île-de-France, led by journalists Jean Poilvet and Joseph Barsalou from the French Resistance.
[14] In October 2003, he founded a monthly newsletter, Les Infos Brèves France Géorgie, for diplomats, companies, academics, students, artists, athletes, and the general public.
[21] From 2007 to 2019, for the Année Francophone internationale, he published the annual report on Georgia, which includes chapters on politics, the economy, society, culture, and science.
[22][23][24][25] In 2013 and 2014, he was nominated to be a consultant for Georgian immigration in the French Ministry of the Interior, the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.