Katarzyna Pisarska is the founder and long-time director of the European Academy of Diplomacy and the Visegrad School of Political Studies. She was also a Programme Director of the Warsaw Security Forum and a Senior Fellow at the Kazimierz Pulaski Foundation. During her 10 years of work to create one of the first non-governmental diplomatic academies in Europe, in 2013 she was recognised by the US magazine Diplomatic Courrier as one of the 99 most influential foreign policy leaders under the age of 33. In March 2014, she was nominated for 6 years as a Young
Global Leader, by the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Katarzyna Pisarska is academically affiliated with the Warsaw School of Economics. She has been employed at the College of Economics and Social Sciences successively as an assistant (2005), assistant professor (2009) and associate professor (from 2019).
She was the project leader of the Jean Monnet Module European Union, the Eastern Partnership & Russia in a New Geopolitical Context for 2015-2018 and is the author of The Domestic Dimension of Public Diplomacy, Evaluating Success through Civil Engagement (Palgrave McMillan 2016).
She specialises in European Union foreign policy, Polish Eastern policy and public diplomacy. In the past, Dr Pisarska has conducted international research at Harvard University (Fulbright Fellowship, 2007), Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC (2010), the University of Oslo (2012) and the Australian National University in Canberra (2015). Since 2012, she has been a visiting lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of Azerbaijan.
She is a graduate of the University of Lodz, the Warsaw School of Economics and the College of Europe in Bruges.
