Prof. Katarzyna Pisarska is a Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Prof. Katarzyna 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 and the Warsaw Security Forum.

Currently, Prof. Pisarska chairs 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, 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, CPD Faculty Fellow at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and a Visiting Professor at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in Baku.

For her leadership accomplishments in the non-for-profit sector, in 2014 Prof. Pisarska has been 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.