Katarzyna Pisarska
Resident Senior Fellow
Chairwoman of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation Council, Chair of Warsaw Security Forum
Prof. Katarzyna Pisarska is one of the four co-founders of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation and since its inception in 2005 serves as Chairwoman of the Foundation Council. Between 2015-2020, she was the Program Director of CFP’s flagshig event – the Warsaw Security Forum, and since 2021 she serves as the Chair of the event.
Specialization: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, USA, RUSSIA, EU
Prof. Pisarska is also the Founder of the European Academy of Diplomacy (2004), and Chair of the Board of Directors of the European Academy of Diplomacy. In 2022, alongside with a group of Ukrainian civil activists and as a response to Russian aggression into Ukraine she co-founded in Warsaw the International Center for Ukrainian Victory. Prof. Pisarska also holds a number of positions in organizations outside of Poland, including Vice President and Board Member of the European Forum Alpbach in Austria, a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington D.C. and an Expert of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
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. 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, having authored the monograph “The Domestic Dimension of Public Diplomacy – Evaluating Success through Civil Engagement” (Palgrave 2016).
For her leadership accomplishments in the non-for-profit sector, in 2014 Prof. Pisarska was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and later selected to serve on the YGL Advisory Group. She was also named “99 under 33” most influential world foreign policy leader by the Diplomatic Courier in Washington D.C.
Permanently in: Warsaw
Katarzyna Pisarska
Resident Senior Fellow
Chairwoman of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation Council, Chair of Warsaw Security Forum
Prof. Katarzyna Pisarska is one of the four co-founders of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation and since its inception in 2005 serves as Chairwoman of the Foundation Council. Between 2015-2020, she was the Program Director of CFP’s flagshig event – the Warsaw Security Forum, and since 2021 she serves as the Chair of the event.
Specialization: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, USA, RUSSIA, EU
Prof. Pisarska is also the Founder of the European Academy of Diplomacy (2004), and Chair of the Board of Directors of the European Academy of Diplomacy. In 2022, alongside with a group of Ukrainian civil activists and as a response to Russian aggression into Ukraine she co-founded in Warsaw the International Center for Ukrainian Victory. Prof. Pisarska also holds a number of positions in organizations outside of Poland, including Vice President and Board Member of the European Forum Alpbach in Austria, a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington D.C. and an Expert of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
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. 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, having authored the monograph “The Domestic Dimension of Public Diplomacy – Evaluating Success through Civil Engagement” (Palgrave 2016).
For her leadership accomplishments in the non-for-profit sector, in 2014 Prof. Pisarska was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and later selected to serve on the YGL Advisory Group. She was also named “99 under 33” most influential world foreign policy leader by the Diplomatic Courier in Washington D.C.
Permanently in: Warsaw