Katarzyna Emanuela Pisarska (born 23 May 1981) is a Polish social entrepreneur, civic activist and academic, specializing in diplomacy and foreign policy.
She is the founder and chairwoman of the European Academy of Diplomacy in Warsaw, Poland and the Visegrad School of Political Studies run in cooperation with the Council of Europe. She is the co-founder and chairwomen[1] of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation and the Warsaw security forum and an associate professor at the Warsaw School of Economics.[2] Since 2020 she is the vice-president of European Forum Alpbach in Austria.[3]
In 2014 she was nominated a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in Geneva and in 2021 became a Munich Young Leader of the Munich Security Conference.[4]
She is the daughter of Marek L. Kowalski [pl] and wife of Polish entrepreneur Zbigniew Pisarski.
Education and academic career
Pisarska is a graduate of the University of Łódź (1998-2003), Warsaw School of Economics (2001-2003) and the College of Europe (2003-2004), having received MA degrees in International Relations and European Integration. In 2009 she has obtained a PhD in economics at the Warsaw School of Economics and in 2018 a post-doctoral degree (habilitacja) in political science at the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the University of Łódź.[citation needed][5]
Katarzyna Pisarska is an associate professor at the Warsaw School of Economics. She specializes in EU foreign policy, EU-Russia relations, Eastern Partnership, as well as public diplomacy. Pisarska's research focuses on the role of civil society in the realization of foreign policy goals. She is the author of the book "The Domestic Dimension of Public Diplomacy - Evaluating Success through Civil Engagement" (Palgrave 2016).[6]
Previously, 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 University of Oslo (2012)at the Australian National University (2015) and the University of Southern California (2019).[citation needed][7]
Pisarska has completed executive leadership courses at the Harvard Kennedy School (2016), the Saïd Business School at the Oxford University (2017) and a module devoted to sustainable environmental policies at Princeton University (2018).
Social and public engagement
Pisarska was one of the co-founders and later President (2004-2008) of the Polish Forum of Young Diplomats. In 2004 she also established the first non-governmental diplomatic academy in Europe: the European Academy of Diplomacy [pl]. In 2013, in partnership with the Council of Europe, she created a regional leadership school: the Visegrad School of Political Studies. Pisarska is also the co-founder of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation in Poland, as well as the Warsaw Security Forum [pl], which she Co-Chairs since 2020.
Pisarska served as an adviser to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Poland, to the Office of National Security at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland; and continues to work as regular foreign affairs broadcaster in Polish and international media, including as a regular commentator in Radio Tok.fm.[8]
Since 2020 she is the Vice-President of European Forum Alpbach in Austria.[3]
