Giorgi Babunashvili was born on September 28th, 1982 in Tbilisi. In 1999, he enrolled in the faculty of International Law and International Relations at Tbilisi State University, where he completed his thesis on "Institution of Political Party in post-Soviet Georgia: from classical models to actual reality." He also received a M.A. from Tbilisi State University in 2005.

Since 2004, Georgi has been working for the "Center of Social Studies," a NGO. He is particularly interested in political and social institutions of transformed societies. In 2005, Georgi became a junior researcher in an international IDEA project, where he investigates political parties of Georgia and Armenia. With assistance of Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Georgi has also taken part in organizing a series of seminars for Georgian political parties. He is also the co-founder of "Youth Association for Political Sciences".

This project will investigate the influence parties have on informal institution in Georgian administrative structures. A favorable environment for domination of informal institutions exists in young democracies undergoing a phase of transition. Authority is not only derived from constitutional mechanisms, but also from informal avenues. This project will use Tbilisi’s municipal bodies following 1998 as a case study in order to examine the specific character of this phenomenon.