Maciej Filip Bukowski
Head of the Energy and Resilience Program

Specializations: ENERGY SECURITY AND POLICY, CLIMATE DIPLOMACY, CLIMATE-SECURITY NEXUS, GEOECONOMICS
Maciej is a Resident Fellow at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation and leads its Energy and Resilience Program. He is also a non-resident fellow with the Tech Policy Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and a Research Fellow at the Earth System Governance Project, a global research network advancing knowledge on global environmental change.
His forthcoming PhD at the Jagiellonian University examines the geoeconomics of clean technology policies in the context of great power rivalry between the EU, the US, and China. A trained international lawyer, he holds degrees from L’École de Droit de la Sorbonne and Cornell Law School. Maciej served as Senior International Analysis Expert at the Polish Development Bank (BGK), where he led the internationalization of a flagship sustainability program, and as Chief Expert at Poland’s Ministry of Climate and Environment, coordinating bilateral and multilateral energy relations. Earlier, he practiced international dispute resolution at leading global law firms in Paris and Warsaw and clerked at the United States Court of International Trade in New York.
Maciej is the recipient of several international scholarships and fellowships, including CEPA’s James S. Denton Fellowship, the International Republican Institute’s Transatlantic Security Initiative, the Aspen Institute’s Young Leaders Program, Bled Strategic Forum Young Leader, the Center for China and Globalization’s Global Young Leader distinction, or the Rudolf S. Schlesinger Scholarship. He is fluent in English, French, and Polish, and conversational in Spanish and Russian. He has spoken and published extensively on topics at the intersection of geopolitics, energy security, and climate change. He also serves as President of the Board of the Cornell Club of Poland, which runs the Cornell Mentors for Ukraine initiative.
Publications (selected):
- Monthly policy notes for CEPA: https://cepa.org/author/maciej-bukowski/
- Bukowski, M. F. (2024). The geopolitical implications of the German hydrogen sector development and its imports strategy. Energy Policy Journal, 27(4), 169–186. https://doi.org/10.33223/epj/196308
- Bukowski, M. F. (2023). Pax Climatica: The Nash equilibrium and the geopolitics of climate change. Journal of Environmental Management, 348, Article 119217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119217
- Bukowski, M. F. (2022, March 21). The geopolitics of carbon tax. Institute of New Europe. https://ine.org.pl/en/the-geopolitics-of-carbon-tax/
- Bukowski, M. (2021, March 18). Quand la Pologne redécouvre la géopolitique. Le Grand Continent. https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2021/03/18/quand-la-pologne- redecouvre-la-geopolitique/
- Bukowski, M. F. (2021). ClimeNous Project: The geopolitics of the green transition, part 2: Geopolitical aspects of technological rivalry in green energy. Institute of New Europe. https://ine.org.pl/en/climenous-project-the-geopolitics-of-the-green- transition-part-2-geopolitical-aspects-of-technological-rivalry-in-green-energy/
- Bukowski, M. F. (2021). The geopolitics of energy transition, part 1: Six challenges for the international balance of power stemming from transitioning away from fossil fuels. Institute of New Europe. https://ine.org.pl/en/the-geopolitics-of-energy- transition-pt-1-six-challenges-for-the-international-balance-of-power-stemming-from- transitioning-away-from-fossil-fuels/
Maciej Filip Bukowski
Head of the Energy and Resilience Program

Specializations: ENERGY SECURITY AND POLICY, CLIMATE DIPLOMACY, CLIMATE-SECURITY NEXUS, GEOECONOMICS
Maciej is a Resident Fellow at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation and leads its Energy and Resilience Program. He is also a non-resident fellow with the Tech Policy Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and a Research Fellow at the Earth System Governance Project, a global research network advancing knowledge on global environmental change.
His forthcoming PhD at the Jagiellonian University examines the geoeconomics of clean technology policies in the context of great power rivalry between the EU, the US, and China. A trained international lawyer, he holds degrees from L’École de Droit de la Sorbonne and Cornell Law School. Maciej served as Senior International Analysis Expert at the Polish Development Bank (BGK), where he led the internationalization of a flagship sustainability program, and as Chief Expert at Poland’s Ministry of Climate and Environment, coordinating bilateral and multilateral energy relations. Earlier, he practiced international dispute resolution at leading global law firms in Paris and Warsaw and clerked at the United States Court of International Trade in New York.
Maciej is the recipient of several international scholarships and fellowships, including CEPA’s James S. Denton Fellowship, the International Republican Institute’s Transatlantic Security Initiative, the Aspen Institute’s Young Leaders Program, Bled Strategic Forum Young Leader, the Center for China and Globalization’s Global Young Leader distinction, or the Rudolf S. Schlesinger Scholarship. He is fluent in English, French, and Polish, and conversational in Spanish and Russian. He has spoken and published extensively on topics at the intersection of geopolitics, energy security, and climate change. He also serves as President of the Board of the Cornell Club of Poland, which runs the Cornell Mentors for Ukraine initiative.
Publications (selected):
- Monthly policy notes for CEPA: https://cepa.org/author/maciej-bukowski/
- Bukowski, M. F. (2024). The geopolitical implications of the German hydrogen sector development and its imports strategy. Energy Policy Journal, 27(4), 169–186. https://doi.org/10.33223/epj/196308
- Bukowski, M. F. (2023). Pax Climatica: The Nash equilibrium and the geopolitics of climate change. Journal of Environmental Management, 348, Article 119217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119217
- Bukowski, M. F. (2022, March 21). The geopolitics of carbon tax. Institute of New Europe. https://ine.org.pl/en/the-geopolitics-of-carbon-tax/
- Bukowski, M. (2021, March 18). Quand la Pologne redécouvre la géopolitique. Le Grand Continent. https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2021/03/18/quand-la-pologne- redecouvre-la-geopolitique/
- Bukowski, M. F. (2021). ClimeNous Project: The geopolitics of the green transition, part 2: Geopolitical aspects of technological rivalry in green energy. Institute of New Europe. https://ine.org.pl/en/climenous-project-the-geopolitics-of-the-green- transition-part-2-geopolitical-aspects-of-technological-rivalry-in-green-energy/
- Bukowski, M. F. (2021). The geopolitics of energy transition, part 1: Six challenges for the international balance of power stemming from transitioning away from fossil fuels. Institute of New Europe. https://ine.org.pl/en/the-geopolitics-of-energy- transition-pt-1-six-challenges-for-the-international-balance-of-power-stemming-from- transitioning-away-from-fossil-fuels/