Curriculum Vitae

Personal data
                Name: Melikidze Valerian
                Nationality: Republic of Georgia
                Born: January 4, 1951
                Gender: Male
                Marital Status: Married, one daughter

Address:
                Apt. 29, Buiding 3, Rcheulishvili Street, 380009, Tbilisi Republic of Georgia,
                Phone – (99532) 293370, mobile – (99599) 906571,  E-mail –  melikidze@hotmail.com

Education

                 1987, Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.), Geography (Human Geography), Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, Certificate GF#02073
                 1973, Geographer (Economic Geography), Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, Diploma (honors) C#436885
                 (1971-1972 at Damascus University, Syria)

Summary of Professional skills

                 Name        Level        Experience

                 Socio-economic Data Collecting,
                 Processing and Research                Expert                24 years
                 Report Writing                                Expert                24 years
                 University  Undergraduate and
                 Graduate Level Teaching                Expert                23 years
                 International Consulting                   Expert                 8   years
                 Management                                  Intermediate       11 years
                 PC desktops and notebooks             Intermediate       13 years


Summary of work experience (since 1979)


12.1979 – up to date Lecturer, Associate Professor (since 1991), Department of Human Geography, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. Lecturing, developing curricula, supervising graduate students. In charge of Environmental Management specialization since 1991. Courses developed since 1995 include – Problems of Global Development; Environment, Resources and Development; Environment and Mass Media.

01.2002 – 03.2003 International Policy Fellow, Open Society Institute, Budapest. Conducting policy research in the area of Primary and Secondary Education Reform Policy and writing report on “Formal Decision Making in Fostering Corruption in School Education in Transitional Societies: Case of Georgia”.

12.2001 – 5.2002 Consultant, Caucasus Environment Outlook (CEO) 2002 Project, UNEP, Tbilisi. Collecting data and writing Chapter 3 “Human Vulnerability, Poverty and Environment” and Chapter 4 “Outlook 2002 to 2032: Three “Alternative Futures” for the Caucasus Region” of CEO.

07.2001 – 09.2001 Member , ad hoc working group developing conceptual document on Georgian higher education under the joint project by Open Society – Georgia Foundation and the Council of Europe.

09.2000 – 06.2001 Fulbright Research Scholar , School of Education, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Conducting research on  interactions between an education and labor market in transitional economies, with special emphasis on failures of labor markets in the NIS to recognize  formal qualifications and skills obtained by job applicants through the college education.

09.1999 – 08.2000 Director , University of Georgia, Carl Vinson Institute of Government (Athens, USA)/ International Training Center of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia) Public Administration Education Outreach Program. In charge of the Georgian side of the US government sponsored program – providing groundwork for opening public administration training college in Tbilisi, recruiting Georgian teacher, organizing and supervising day by day program activities as well as activities of visiting American experts, establishing and maintaining contacts with the local government institutions and officials, other local establishments in a field of public administration education, etc. 01.2000-04.2000 in Carl Vinson Institute of Government, retraining in a field of public administration, with a special emphasis on a strategic planning.

10.1999 – 12.1999 Consultant , International Red Cross and Red Crescent Federation, Tbilisi Office, Tbilisi, Georgia. Collecting, processing and  analyzing data, writing draft version of Georgian Population Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment.

03.1999 – 11.1999 National Coordinator ,  “Women and Children in Georgia: A Situation Analysis”, UNICEF, Tbilisi Office, Tbilisi, Georgia. Managing team of 4 local and 1 non-Georgian experts, coordinating activities with the local UNICEF office, evaluating preliminary reports by the experts, consolidating and writing draft and final versions of the report. Personally participating in collecting and processing data on socio-economic development, employment, poverty, education, etc.

01.1995 – 08.1999 Consultant , Georgian Human Development Report Programme, UNDP Office, Tbilisi, Georgia.  Collecting, processing and analyzing data on various aspects of human development including economic, social (poverty, education, health care, social security), environmental, regional, etc. Writing appropriate parts of the report. Major contributor/coauthor of the reports for years 1995 and 1999, coauthor of the final text of the reports for years 1996 and 1997.

02.1999 – 07.1999 Consultant , The World Bank Georgian Education Assessment Team, the WB Tbilisi Office, Tbilisi, Georgia. Conducting survey of 56 leading local and foreign companies operating in Georgia on their personnel recruiting practices from the standpoint of the formal educational status (vocational, higher) of applicants and employers’ requirements, analyzing obtained data and writing a report.

09.1991 – 08.1999 Lecturer, Chairman , (since 1994) Department of Environmental Management, International Training Center of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia. In charge of managing 8-10 faculty and staff (including recruiting), planning and organizing day by day departmental activities, curricula development, undergraduate and graduate students’ supervision, lecturing, etc.

09.1997 – 04.1998 Scientific Consultant , Eurasia Foundation Program – “Social-Economic Situation of Georgia – 98”, Tbilisi, Georgia. Consulting a team of the local experts developing an electronic data-base for the State Department of Statistics’ web-page on various aspects of selection of appropriate socio-economic indices, collecting, processing, analyzing and organizing the data.

08.1996 – 09.1996 Team Leader , “Social-economic Literature Review of Baseline Environment”, Western Route Early Petroleum Pipeline, Georgian Pipeline Company, Tbilisi, Georgia. Managing the team of Georgian experts collecting data for the review, analyzing it and writing report on possible impact of construction and exploitation of Baky – Poti (Black sea) petroleum pipeline on population and economy within 2 km wide corridor along its route through Georgia.
Publications

24 articles, 6 books –

Co-author (with W. Scott) - “Women and Children in Georgia: A Situation Analysis”, UNICEF, Tbilisi, 2000.

Co-author - “Human Development Report, Georgia”, years 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999. UNDP, Tbilisi.

“Georgian Bread Industry During Economic Reform”, Discussion Papers Series, UNDP-Georgia, Tbilisi, 1998.

Co-editor (with D. M.Smith) – “Spatial Problems of the Transition to a Market Economy and Democratization: Theory and Practice”, London University Press, 1998.

Co-author (with M. Chelidze) – “Countrylevel Support to Education for All, Report on the General Situation of Basic Education in Georgia”, UNDP, Georgia, April, 1997.

Co-author (with T. Gogishvili) – “Education in Transition: Georgia”. Monee Regional Monitoring Report #5, UNICEF-ICDC, Florence, 1997, (mimeo)

Languages

Russian and Georgian – mother tongues, English – fluent


Modified: May 29, 2002, Author V. Melikidze
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