1999-2002 - PhD at the Law Faculty of the Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany (with honors)
1998-1999 - Master's Degree at the Law Faculty of the Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany (with honors)
1991-1996 - Bachelor's Degree at the Law Faculty of the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (with honors) 

2002 PhD in Law (Germany, with honors) 
1999 Master of Law (LL.M) (Germany, with honors)

2015 - 1.08.2016 - Deputy Head of State Security Service of Georgia
2012-2015 - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia 
2014-2016 - Full Professor at Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
2011-2014 - Full Professor at Grigol Robakhidze University
2010 July-August - Academic Research at Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
2011 July-August - Academic Research at Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
2009-2011 - Associated Professor at Georgian-American University
2009-2010 - Associated Professor at Caucasus Law School
2007-2009 - Scientist-Researcher at German University of Administrative Sciences - Speyer (Scholarship of Humboldt Foundation)
2006-2007 - Professor, Dean of the Law Faculty at Georgian University
2004-2006 - Rector of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
2003-2004 - Representative of the German Konrad-Adenauer Political Foundation in the South Caucasus
2002-2003 - State Committee Coordinator of Reforms of Law Enforcement Agencies
From 2002 - Senior Scientific Officer at the T.Tsereteli Law Institute of Science Academy
2002-2005 - Assistant-Professor at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Law Faculty, Law Theory and Constitutional Law Department 
1999-2002 - Assistant to Director, Göttingen State Teaching and Political Science Institute, Germany
1995-1998 - Lecturer at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Law Faculty, Law Theory and Constitutional Law Department
1992-1995 - Chair of Law Faculty Students' Scientific Council Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.