Mirian Melua

Melua was born in a small village near Paris, Leuville-sur-Orge, where a part of Georgian political emigration settled in 1922 after the Red Army invaded the Democratic Republic of Georgia. He grew up with a Georgian mother{{cite web|language=fr|url=https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/InterNews/LeMonde/issues/1999/lm990126.pdf|website=Le Monde|title=Au Carnet du Monde. Décès|date=26 January 1999}}. and father,{{cite web|url=http://www.nplg.gov.ge/emigrants/ka/00000198/|language=ka|website=National Parliament Library of Georgia|title= მირიან მელუა}}. an older brother, Luc,{{cite web|language=fr|website= Le Parisien|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/essonne/leuville-l-autre-capitale-de-la-georgie-13-11-2004-2005450806.php|title =Leuville, l'autre capitale de la Géorgie| date= 13 November 2004}}. and a younger sister, Elen. He was baptized according to Orthodox Christian practices. His godmother was Veronique Cheidze,{{cite web|language=fr|website=Colisée|url=https://www.colisee.org/old/public//article/fiche/4940 |title=Véronique Chéidzé (1909–1986), fille du 1er président de Parlement géorgien|date=29 November 2013}}. the daughter of Nikolay Cheidze, a figure of the February Revolution and the Democratic Republic of Georgia—he would hand over the diplomatic passport of Nikolay Cheidze, Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, to Irakli Kobakhidze, Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia on 15 January 2019, in Paris.{{cite web|website=Parliament of Georgia|url=http://www.parliament.ge/en/parlamentarebi/chairman/chairmannews/irakli-kobaxidze-saqartvelos-demokratiuli-respublikis-parlamentisa-da-damfudznebeli-krebis-tavmdjdomaris-nikoloz-karlo-chxeidzis-shtamomavlebs-shexvda.page|title=The meeting of Irakli Kobakhidze with the descendants of the Chairman of the Parliament and the Constituent Assembly of the First Democratic Republic of Georgia, Nikoloz (Karlo) Chkheidze|date= 15 January 2019}}.{{cite web|language=ka|website=TV Imedi Georgia|url=https://www.imedi.ge/ge/video/32577/parlamentis-tavmjdomaris-viziti-saprangetshi|title=პარლამენტის თავმჯდომარის ვიზიტი საფრანგეთში|date=15 January 2019}}. Melua's godfather was Shalva Skamkochaishvili, president of the Georgian Association in France.{{cite web|language=fr|website=Colisée|url=https://www.colisee.org/old/public//article/fiche/2913|title=Chalva Skamkotchaïchvili (1904–1949), ancien président de l'Association géorgienne en France|date=18 February 2013}}. He was naturalized at age 14. After graduating high school, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Paris, where he obtained a master's degree. He was called to military service and served for 18 months in the French Forces in Germany.

Melua had a scientific, technical, and business career in the field of information systems in four companies, IBM; Brown, Boveri & Cie; Banque Populaire; and BNP Paribas. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, his first jobs were to improve the real-time analysis of mass-spectrometry methods in IBM's French development laboratory (located in Corbeil-Essonnes) and the radar guidance of French rocket-tracking in Guiana (located in Kourou). In the early 1980s, he was appointed the director of information systems. At Brown Bovery France, he installed the management application of electric motors deliveries one day after the order. Later, at Banque Populaire, he merged the information systems of five local banks. At Groupe BNP, he was in charge of the retail banking general information system for France, before being nominated as the general secretary for Information System and Organization."BNP, sécurité d'accès aux terminaux d'agences et exploitation bancaire", entretien avec Miriam Méloua, Secrétaire général à l'organisation et à l'informatique, Revue Informatique bancaire (in French), {{ISSN|1165-4880}}. 2 June 1993. In the 1990s, he joined Groupe BNP Switzerland and set up information systems for three subsidiaries—UEB, BNP, and Paribas{{cite web|language=fr|website=Shabex CH| url= https://www.shabex.ch/fr/pe/meloua_miriam_2534661.htm| title = Meloua Miriam| date= 5 August 2006}}.—in corporate and institutional banking and in market activities.{{cite web|language=fr|website=Shabex CH|url= https://www.shabex.ch/fr/co/pub/bnp_paribas_services_sa_CH-660.0.767.000-4.htm | title= BNP PARIBAS Service SA|date=29 January 2003}}.

Melua received his first official press card in 1959 from a regional newspaper, La Gazette de l’Île-de-France, led by journalists Jean Poilvet and Joseph Barsalou from the French Resistance. He received his most recent official press card in 2017 from the Année francophone internationale, an institution working with the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille. He formerly wrote articles for newspapers such as Usine nouvelle{{cite web|language=fr|url= https://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/telecoms-comment-faire-baisser-la-facture-des-servicessous-la-double-pression-de-l-inflation-des-depenses-de-telecommunicationset-de-l-agressivite-commerciale-de-nouveaux-arrivants-les-utilisateurs-n-.N73674|title=Télécoms|date=20 October 1994|website=Usine nouvelle}}. and AGEFI.{{cite web|url=http://tecfaetu.unige.ch/staf/staf-h/khiari/staf14/ex7/welcome.html|website=AGEFI|title=Article sur l'organisation des systèmes informatiques et normes de fiabilité dans le e-commerce|language=fr|year=2002}}.

In October 2003, he founded a monthly newsletter, Les Infos Brèves France Géorgie, for diplomats, companies, academics, students, artists, athletes, and the general public. The 182nd newsletter was published in December 2018.{{cite web|url=http://www.samchoblo.org/archivage%20infos%20breves%20france%20georgie.htm|language=fr|website=Samchoblo|title=Archivage Infos Brèves France Géorgie|date=December 2018}}.

He participates in several publications in Tbilisi, such as La Vie en Géorgie{{cite news|first=Mirian|last=Melua|title=La presse française dans la révolution |work=La Vie en Géorgie|location=Tbilisi|date=24 December 2003|quote=Dès la veille de l’annonce de la démission du président Edouard Chevardnadze, les grands journalistes de la presse française étaient déjà à Tbilissi}} and Agenda Georgia.{{cite web|title=Why president of Georgia's first lawmaking body Karlo Chkheidze was absent from his historic 1919 election|url=http://agenda.ge/en/blog/2019/1|author=Mirian Melua|location=Tbilisi|website=Agenda Georgia|date=12 March 2019|publication-date=}}. He also contributes to Regard sur l’Est in Paris.{{cite web|language=fr|website= Regard sur l’Est|url=http://regard-est.com/georgie-une-langue-et-une-nation-en-peril-depuis-des-millenaires |title=Géorgie: une langue et une nation en péril depuis des millénaires|date=27 March 2008}}.{{cite web|language=fr|website= Regard sur l’Est|url=http://regard-est.com/georgie-analyse-de-lelection-presidentielle-2018|title=Géorgie : analyse de l'élection présidentielle 2018|date=30 November 2018}}.

From 2004 to 2014, he was an administrator of the Comité de Liaison pour la Solidarité avec l’Europe de l’Est, a non-governmental organization working on Eastern European issues funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.{{cite web|url= https://www.la-croix.com/Archives/2012-06-12/De-l-Europe-des-Balkans-a-l-Asie-centrale-_NP_-2012-06-12-817863 | website=La Croix|author=Sebastien Maillard|title= De l'Europe des Balkans à l'Asie centrale|date=1 June 2012|language=fr}}. He was in charge of Georgian issues.

{{cite web|url= https://www.refworld.org/docid/42df60eb20.html| website = Ref World|title= Géorgie : information sur le traitement réservé aux membres du mouvement démocratique par les autorités et par la population, en général (novembre 2003-janvier 2005)|author=Immigration an Refugee Board of Canada|date=9 February 2005|language=fr}}.

From 2007 to 2019, for the Année Francophone internationale, he published the annual report on Georgia, which includes chapters on politics, the economy, society, culture, and science.{{cite web|website=Agora Francophone|url= https://www.agora-francophone.org/georgie-par-mirian-meloua-1363|language=fr| title= Géorgie. Retour sur l'année 2015–2016|date=24 November 2015}}.{{cite web|language=fr|website=Agora Francophone| url=https://www.agora-francophone.org/georgie-par-mirian-meloua-2071 |title= Géorgie. Retour sur l'année 2016–2017|date=15 September 2016}}.{{cite web|language=fr|website=Agora Francophone| url=https://www.agora-francophone.org/georgie-par-mirian-meloua| title =Géorgie. Retour sur l'année 2017|date=6 January 2018}}.{{cite web|language=fr|website=Agora Francophone|url=https://www.agora-francophone.org/georgie-une-annee-d-actualite-2018|title=Géorgie. Retour sur l'année 2018|date=2 January 2019}}.

In 2013 and 2014, he was nominated to be a consultant for Georgian immigration in the French Ministry of the Interior, the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides. He validated the files of Georgian refugees in France from 1924 to 1952 before online publications.{{cite web|url= https://ofpra.gouv.fr/fr/l-ofpra/actualites/ouverture-d-un-portail-d-acces-aux|title= Ouverture d'un portail d'accès aux archives de l'Ofpra en ligne|language=fr|website=OFPRA|author=Comité Histoire|date=8 February 2018}}. He explained the process during a conference at the Musée de l'Immigration in Paris.{{cite web|language=fr|website= Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration|url= http://www.histoire-immigration.fr/agenda/2014-11/colloque-d-une-apres-guerre-l-autre-l-invention-de-l-ofpra| title= Colloque : D'une après-guerre à l'autre, l'invention de l'Ofpra| date= 12 November 2014 | author1=Aline Agoustures|author2=Claire Mouradian}}.{{cite web|language=fr|url=http://www.samchoblo.org/Conf%C3%A9rence%20OFPRA%20du%2012%2012%202014.htm |website=Samchoblo|title= Conférence sur l'émigration géorgienne organisée par l'OFPRA|date=12 December 2014}}.

• 2004, La Libération d’Arpajon, en prélude à la Libération de Paris, 22 aout 1944, Art et histoire du Pays de Châtres Bulletin N°29{{cite web|url= http://artethistoire.free.fr/Page%20repertoire.htm | website= Art et histoire du Pays de Châtres |title=Les Bulletins| language=fr|date=30 October 2015}}.
• 2005, Country guide, Petit Futé Géorgie, {{ISBN|2-7469-1116-7}}
• 2012, Les Maisons de la place du Marché d’Arpajon, Art et Histoire du Pays de Châtres, {{ISSN|1773-2670}}:{{cite web|url= http://artethistoire.free.fr/Page%20publications.htm|title=Publications|website=Art et Histoire du Pays de Châtres|language=fr|date= 30 October 2015}}.
• 2017, Réfugiés et apatrides. De la nationalité géorgienne au statut d’apatride d’origine géorgienne, Presses universitaires de Rennes, {{ISBN|978-2-7535-5486-3}}{{cite web|url= http://www.pur-editions.fr/couvertures/1497872009_doc.pdf| title= Réfugiés et apatrides. De la nationalité géorgienne au statut d'apatride d'origine géorgienne |website=Presses universitaires de Rennes|language=fr|date=May 2017}}.

• 1973, 1975 and 1978, Systems Engineering Professional Excellence Awards, from IBM Worl Trade, work on information systems
• 2013, Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides award, work on Georgian immigration

• Government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Exile
• Georgians in France
• Georgian–French day of Leuville-sur-Orge
• Leuville cemetery

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• {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.centreeurope.org/georgie/actualites/entretiens/infos-breves-france-georgie.htm Point de vue sur le rapatriement du héros national géorgien Kakoutsa Tcholokachvili]
• {{in lang|fr}} [https://www.franceculture.fr/tout-sur-la-culture-georgienne Tout sur la culture géorgienne]

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