Professor, Academician, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia.

Alexander G. Tvalchrelidze graduated from M. Lomonosov Moscow State University 1971 as an economic geologist. In 1974, he received his PhD at M. Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1999 and 2019 he became an academician at Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences and Georgian Academy of Natural Sciences. Now, Dr. Tvalchrelidze is an invited Professor in economics of commodities at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, manager of geological projects and member of board of directors at Geological Exploration Center LLC, Tbilisi, and an executive director at JSC International Mining Box, Tbilisi-Tehran. He is an author of more than 234 scientific works, including 20 monographs, published in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Sweden, the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia, Japan, Iran, etc. He is also an editor and publisher of 5 international scientific issues published in Georgia, Russia, Germany and Netherlands, an editor-in-chief and board member of numerous monographs and issues, and an author of numerous publicist articles.