He then studied at the Diplomatic Academy of Paris (1998), International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (2001), and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2003–2005), and went through a Financial Programming and Policy course at the International Monetary Fund Institute (2007).
[3] From 1994 to 2003, Gvindadze served on various positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.
He was in charge of foreign debt, cooperation with the international financial institutions and bilateral donors.
[4] Dimitri Gvindadze was appointed Minister of Finance on 20 June 2011, succeeding Kakha Baindurashvili.
[4][2] On 13 August 2012 he was, in turn, replaced with Alexander Khetaguri, hitherto Minister for Energy.