title: Gotcha Tchogovadzé
text: # Gotcha Tchogovadzé
  
  Gotcha Tchogovadzé (Georgian: გოჩა ჩოგოვაძე; born 11 January 1941) is a retired Georgian academic and diplomat, and former Ambassador of Georgia to France.
  
  * In 1971, he organized the Polytechnic Institute and was a founding member of the MIS department, and was elected first chairman.
  * In 1976 he was awarded the title of professor.
  * In 1976 he became head of the chair of the sectoral research laboratory
  * From 1981 to 1986 he worked in Paris, at UNESCO's Education Sector Informatics Department.
  * From 1986 to 1988 he was leading in the Communist Party Central Committee's Department of Education and Science, for many years was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  * From 1988 to 1994 he was Rector of the Polytechnic Institute.
  * From 1994 to 2004 he was ambassador in Paris with coaccreditation in Madrid, accredited as permanent representative to UNESCO.
  * Since 2004 he is employed at the UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Mission.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * 20 monographs, 6 of the invention and more than 100 scientific works.
  