In 2019, Badri Okujava graduated from Ilia State University with a bachelor's degree in political science. In 2021, he graduated from the political science master's program at the same university. In 2018-2019, he participated in a research internship program at a non-governmental research organization in Tbilisi, Georgia - Soviet Past Research Laboratory (SovLab).

Since 2019, he has been working as a researcher in the same organization. Okujava's research interests include the national policy of the Soviet Union towards Soviet nations and national minorities in the South Caucasus.