| Omar Keshelashvili | |
| Honorific Suffix: | Professor |
| Native Name: | ომარ ქეშელაშვილი |
| Other Names: | Omara Keshelashvili, Омар Кешелашвили |
| Birth Date: | 9 July 1941 |
| Birth Place: | Tbilisi, Georgian SSR |
| Nationality: | Georgian |
| Education: | The Agricultural Institute of Georgia |
| Occupation: | Economist, professor, political scientist |
| Years Active: | 1963 – present |
| Employer: | Georgia Business University |
| Professor of Economics | |
| Spouse: | Marina Lezhava |
| Children: | 2 |
| Father: | Grigol Keshelashvili |
| Family: | Keshelashvili |
| Awards: | 1999 - Order of Merit |
| Website: | http://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/ka/00000516/ |
Omar Keshelashvili (Georgian: ომარ ქეშელაშვილი or Georgian: ომარა ქეშელაშვილი, Russian: Омар Кешелашвили) is an economist, political scientist, agriculture scientist and professor. He also founded the Georgia Business University with his brother Nikoloz Keshelashvili.[1] Omar graduated from The Agricultural Institute of Georgia in 1963, he became a senior scientist, sector manager and deputy director at the Scientific Research Institute of Agricultural Economy and Organization.[2] [3] Omar worked in the agriculture industry like his father, Grigol Keshelashvili.
In 1991 Omar and his brother Nikoloz Keshelashvili founded the Georgian Business University, Omar has been the director of the Institute of Economics and Business LLC based on the base of the university.
Omar was born in the capital Tbilisi in the Georgian SSR of the Soviet Union. His parents were both scientists and professors, his father Grigol Keshelashvili was an agricultural scientist and professor of the field while his mother, Elisabed Mkheidze, was a professor of International politics and world affairs. Omar graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Organization of the Agricultural Institute of Georgia in 1963.
Since 1966, he worked in the Scientific Research Institute of Agricultural Economy and Organization: as a senior scientist, sector manager, deputy director, director; In 1968, he defended the scientific degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences, and in 1978, Doctor of Economic Sciences; His doctoral dissertation was recognized as a new scientific direction in the field of economic evaluation of agricultural chemicalization, during which, as an innovative approach, the author used the possibilities of information technology. He has been awarded the scientific title of professor, he also wrote various books and investigations on economics and agricultural science.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
1991–2011 For 20 years, Omar was the rector of the private higher education institution he founded - Georgia Business University; Since 2011, he has been the director of the Institute of Economics and Business LLC based on the base of this university; 2007–2011 Director of the newly established Institute of Agrarian Economics of the State Agricultural University, and then the Chairman of the Scientific Council; Since 2008, the chairman and chief editor of the editorial-scientific board of the international, refereed, scientific-methodological and practical journal "Agrarian-Economic Science and Technology" founded by him; With his research, he created new directions in Georgian agrarian-economic science; He was the first to develop a very specific methodology, with a computer program, and based on it, he gave us an economic assessment of the use of chemical means in Georgian agriculture and its scientific foundations, taking into account zonal features; laid the foundation for research on the problems of agricultural risk management in farms and was the first (2008–2009) to determine the economic shifts in the appropriateness of risk and the optimal levels of return, taking into account the zonal characteristics of farms; In 2009, the territory of Georgia was divided into 13 zones and 8 subzones in terms of agricultural production specialization; In 2019, following the development of the integration of production processes, which led to the functional convergence and connection of agriculture and the food industry, it made some changes to this scheme, and it adapted to the development of the food industry for the first time in a period of almost 70 years since 1950; Since 1980, he has been giving lectures at Tbilisi State University and Georgian State Agrarian University; 31 postgraduate and doctoral students have been educated; has taken part in 5 world congresses; He has published 1050 scientific works, including 230 books, of which 53 monographs, 9 textbooks, 136 brochures, 275 newspaper scientific - publication works, the total number of scientific and scientific - publication works is 1325. In 2013, he was awarded the "Best Scientist of the Year" honor in the agricultural field rank in the field of economy, in 2018 he was awarded with an honorary certificate of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Georgia for long and fruitful scientific and educational activities in the field of higher education and science. Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor.
Below is a list of books and parts of books which were fully or partially written by Omar Keshelashvili.[16]