Organizational committee

A chairman:

Th. Gamkrelidze – Academician, President of the Georgian National Academy.

Co-chairmen:

L. Ezugbaia – Director of the Arn. Chikobava Institute of Linguistics;
V. Boeder – Professor of the Oldenburg University;
M. Kumakhov – Academician, a head of the Institute of Linguistics of Russian Academy of Sciences;
G. Khubua – Professor, Rector of Iv. Javakhishvili state University of Tbilisi.

Members:

I. Abdulaev – Main researcher of the Institute of language and Literature after H. Tsadasa;
N. Andguladze – Professor, caucasologist;
A. Arabuli
– Professor, a chair-man of a scientific board at the Arn.Chikobava Institute;
Ts. Baramidze – Professor, a head of the Institute of Caucasiology at the TSU;
T. Bolkvadze – Professor, a co-ordinator of the state language program of the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Georgia;
I. Broun – Professor of the Warshaw University;
I. Gippert – Professor of the Frankfurt University;
D. Tvaltvadze – Dean of the Humanitarian Faculty of the TSU;
K. Kakitadze – Professor, a head of the Department of Scientific Information at the Arn.Chikobava Institute of Linguistics;
G. Kvaratskhelia – Corresponding-member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences;
M. Manjgaladze – Deputy director of the Arn.Chikobava Institute of Linguistics;
D. Melikishvili – Professor, a head of the Institute of the Georgian Language of the TSU;
F. Ozdoeva - Professor of the University of Grozno and Narzani;
T.Uturgaidze – Professor, a senior research-worker at the Arn.Chikobava Institute of Linguistics;
M.Kurdiani – Professor, a head of the Department of the General Linguistics at the Arn.Chikobava Institute of Linguistics;
V. Shengelia – Professor, a head of the Department of the Caucasian Languages at the Arn.Chikibava Institute of Linguistics;
M.Chukhua – Professor – a head of the Department of the Kartvelian Languages at the Arn.Chikobava Institute of Linguistics;
L. Chkadua – Professor of Abkhazian Scientific Research Institute