BIO

Prof. Katarzyna Pisarska is a Polish civic activist and scholar. She is the Founder of the European Academy of Diplomacy (2004) and Co-Founder of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation (2005), the Warsaw Security Forum (2014) and the International Center for Ukrainian Victory (2022). She is also an Associate Professor at Warsaw School of Economics and Head of the Advisory Council to the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Polish Parliament.

For her leadership accomplishments in the non-for-profit sector, in 2014 Prof. Pisarska was recognized as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum and later selected to serve on the YGL Advisory Group. She was a Munich Young Leader (2021/2022) with the Munich Security Conference . She was also named “99 under 33” most influential world foreign policy leader by the Diplomatic Courier in Washington D.C.

In addition to her social entrepreneur work, Prof. Pisarska pursues a career in academia. She is an Associate Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics and a CPD Faculty Fellow at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Previously, Prof. Pisarska was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Harvard University (2007), a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (2010), at the Australian National University (2015), at the University of Southern California (2019) and at the University of Malaga (2022/2023).

She specializes in EU foreign policy, Eastern Partnership, EU-Russia relations, and public diplomacy, among others having authored the monograph “The Domestic Dimension of Public Diplomacy – Evaluating Success through Civil Engagement” (Palgrave 2016).