Rate My Professor Marina Karchava

Marina Karchava serves as Associate Professor and Vice Rector in Academic Affairs at the Agricultural University of Georgia, where she contributes to defining educational policy, overseeing university authorization and accreditation processes, and ensuring the seamless implementation of academic programs. She concurrently holds the position of Vice Rector in Academic Affairs at Tbilisi Free University. With 35 years of pedagogical experience, she is an Associate Professor in Operations Management and Management Sciences at Tbilisi Free University, teaching courses such as Operations Management at the master's level and Service Management at both master's and bachelor's levels. Karchava graduated with distinction from I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Cybernetics (1975-1980), obtaining a degree in Mathematics. She completed a doctoral program in Applied Mathematics focusing on Decision-Making Systems at the Institute of Computational Mathematics (1991-1993), along with doctoral programs in pedagogy and operations management. In 2006, she participated in the Participant-Oriented Teaching Colloquium at Harvard Business School.