Roin Metreveli

Roin Metreveli is a Georgian academician and historian. He was the first elected rector of the Tbilisi State University, after Petre Melikishvili and Ivane Javakhishvili. Metreveli served as a secretary of the Central Committee of the Georgian Communist Party during the Soviet Union, from 1960 to 1972, and subsequently as its first secretary. From 1972, he was a major editor of the Georgian Encyclopedia. He is the author of scientific publications and books about Georgian history and Caucasiology. For several years, he was a member of the Georgian Parliament. He was chairman of the board of rectors of all Georgian Universities.