28th Rector, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (2013-2016) Minister of Economy, Republic of Georgia (1994-2000) at present Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development (Georgia) Vladimer Papava (Georgian: ვლადიმერ პაპავა) (born March 25, 1955) is an Academician-Secretary of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, a professor of economics at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, the former Rector of the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (August 16, 2013 – April 20, 2016), and the former Minister of Economy of Georgia (June 1994 – May 2000).

In 2005-2006 he was a visiting scholar at the Central Asia–Caucasus Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

In 2008-2010 he was the Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Committee for Economics and Law of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences; from 2010 he has been the Chairman of the Scientific Committee for Economics of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences; in 2007-2010 he was a Member of the CASE (Center for Social and Economic Research) Advisory Council (Warsaw, Poland) [24] and a Member of the International Scientific Council of the International Institute for Social Development (Moscow, Russia).

[25] In 2008 Vladimer Papava was awarded the Philippe Gogichaishvili Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia for the book – Necroeconomics: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Capitalism.

In 2004 Vladimer Papava together with a group of Georgian economists was awarded the State Prize of Georgia in Science for the Series of Publications – ‘The Methods and Models of Macroeconomic Regulations.’