Born in
Tbilisi, Khaduri graduated from the
Tbilisi State University with a degree in
macroeconomics in 1996. From 1996 to 2004, he served on various positions in Georgia's ministries of Economy and of Finance, including being Deputy Finance Minister and the ministry's parliamentary secretary (2003–2004). He then worked for the
United Nations Development Programme as a national consultant from 2004 and 2008. Khaduri lectured in economics at the Tbilisi State University from 1999 until August 2012, when he accused the university's administration of dismissing him because of his affiliation with the newly established opposition
Georgian Dream party led by the tycoon
Bidzina Ivanishvili. In October 2012, with the Georgian Dream's victory in the
parliamentary election, Khaduri was elected to the
Parliament of Georgia, but he was later appointed Minister of Finance in the
cabinet of Bidzina Ivanishvili. He retained this position in the succeeding
cabinet of
Irakli Garibashvili, Ivanishvili's choice as his successor, in November 2013. ==References==