Dimitri Gvindadze

Minister of Finance of Georgia: Dimitri Gvindadze

Dimitri Gvindadze was born in 1973, in Tbilisi. He is married on Maia Kvaliashvili and has two daughters. He speaks English(fluent), French(fluent), Russian(fluent) and Georgian(native) languages

 

    PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

  • June 2011-present

    MINISTER OF FINANCE OF GEORGIA - Tbilisi, Georgia

     
  • July 2005-June 2011

    MINISTRY OF FINANCE, Deputy Minister, external relations, cooperation with IFIs, public debt - Tbilisi, Georgia

     
  • July 2005-June 2011

    BLACK SEA TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BANK (BSTDB), Director for Georgia - Thessaloniki, Greece

     
  • January 2007-June 2011

    COUNCIL OF EUROPE DEVELOPMENT BANK (CEB), Member of the Administrative Council - Paris, France

     
  • 1999-2003

    MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS , Deputy Director, UNESCO and International Humanitarian, Relations Department - Tbilisi, Georgia

     
  • 1994-2003

    MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Deputy Secretary-General, Georgian National Commission for UNESCO - Tbilisi, Georgia

     
  • EDUCATION

  • August-December 2007

    IMF INSTITUTE, Course on Financial Programming and Policies (distance and residential segments) - Tbilisi, Georgia Washington, D.C.

     
  • 2003-2005

    HARVARD UNIVERSITY, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Masters degree in development economics (MPA/ID) - Cambridge, MA,United States

     
  • January-June 2001

    INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES,Diploma program “International Relations and Development” (merit) ,The Hague-Netherlands

     
  • 1997-1998

    INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC ACADEMY,of Advanced Studies in International Politics, Diploma of Excellence in Diplomatic Protocol - Paris, France

     
  • 1990-1995

    GEORGIAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY MS in industrial and civil engineering (highest honor - red diploma) - Tbilisi, Georgia

     
  • TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 2006 (spring semester)

    I. JAVAKHISHVILI TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS,Lecturer for the course “Macroeconomic Reasoning: Theory and Practice” - Tbilisi, Georgia

     
  • 2005 (fall semester)

    CAUCASUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, Lecturer for the course “Macroeconomic Reasoning: Theory and Practice” - Tbilisi, Georgia

     
  • 2005 (spring semester)

    HARVARD UNIVERSITY, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Course Assistant, Macroeconomic Theory and Policy - Cambridge, MA, USA