Meet our speaker - Zuzanna Rudzińska-Bluszcz

Zuzanna Rudzińska-Bluszcz

Zuzanna Rudzińska-Bluszcz

Ministry of Justice

Zuzanna Rudzińska-Bluszcz

Ministry of Justice

  

BIO

Human rights lawyer, legal counselor, formerly an attorney. From 2021 to 2023, president of the ClientEarth Lawyers for the Earth Foundation. From 2015-2021, chief coordinator for strategic litigation of the Office of the Ombudsman. Three-time (in 2020-2021) candidate for the office of Ombudsman.

Previously, she worked in law firms for ten years. She was involved in a number of human rights litigation cases, including freedom of expression, rights of people with disabilities and discrimination. She was also a judge of the Higher Disciplinary Court of the Bar Association and a member of the Women’s Panel of the Supreme Bar Council.

A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration, she also studied Applied Social Sciences at the UW and at Cardiff Law School in the UK.
In 2011, she completed her lawyer’s apprenticeship. She is currently registered as a legal advisor. She is a graduate of the Leadership Academy for Poland (2017), Marshall Memorial Fellowship (2019) and Leaders Europe: Obama Foundation Fellowship (2020).