Today, among the members of the Academy are well-known scientists Tamaz Gamkrelidze (linguistics), David Muskhelishvili (history), Revaz Gamkrelidze (mathematics), Simon Khechinashvili (med.), George Nakhutsrishvili (botany), Vladimer Papava (economics), David Lordkipanidze (palaeoanthropology), etc.
He received his Candidate of Science degree in Economics (PhD) from Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, in 1982, and his Doctor of Science degree in Economics from Tbilisi State University in 1989 and Leningrad State University in 1990.
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From 1997 Vladimer Papava is a Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences.
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He is an Active Member of The International Academy of Sciences, Education, Industry and Arts (CA, USA), an Active Member of The New York Academy of Sciences (NY, USA), an Active Member of the International Informatization Academy (UN) and other international societies and associations.
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In 2008-2010 he was a Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Committee for Economics and Law of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences; from 2010 he is a Chairman of the Scientific Committee for Economics of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences; from 2007 he is a Member of the CASE (Center for Social and Economic Research) Advisory Council (Warsaw, Poland) and a Member of the International Scientific Council of the International Institute for Social Development (Moscow, Russia).