Katarzyna Pisarska

Prof. Katarzyna Pisarska is a Polish social entrepreneur, civic activist and academic. She is the Founder of the European Academy of Diplomacy, the Visegrad School of Political Studies and a Co-Founder of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation, the Warsaw Security Forum

Currently, Prof. Pisarska is the Chair of the Warsaw Security Forum in Poland. She presides over the Board of Directors of the European Academy of Diplomacy and the Foundation Council of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation. She is also the Vice President of the European Forum Alpbach in Austria.

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 and a CPD Faculty Fellow at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Previously, Prof. Pisarska was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard University (2007, Fulbright Scholarship), Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (2010), Australian National University (2015), University of Southern California (2019) and the University of Malaga (2022-2023).

For her leadership accomplishments, Prof. Pisarska has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (2014) and a Munich Young Leader by the Munich Security Conference (2021).