General tasks
Project management
Event management
Collaboration on IDM publications
Expertise
EU institutional architecture, EU foreign policy, civic engagement, and issues of international democracy.
Country expertise
Central and Eastern Europe and Spanish-speaking world.
Language skills
Polish – Mother tongue
English and Spanish – fluent
French and Slovak – intermediate
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since 12/2022: Research Associate at IDM
Since 02/2017: Policy Analyst / Policy Director, Centre for Global Europe, GLOBSEC Policy Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
07/2015-07/2016: Senior Rapporteur for Administrative Affairs, Permanent Delegation of Poland to the OECD, Paris, France
06/2012 – 02/2017: Senior Analyst, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Warsaw, Poland
11/2010 – 05/2012: Project Coordinator and Office Manager, Permanent Secretariat of Community of Democracies, Warsaw, Poland
Education
Ph.D. in Arts of Political Science, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism from the University of Warsaw, Poland
MA in International Relations from the Faculty of Economics at the Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland
Diploma in Latin American Studies from Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (TEC Monterrey) in Mexico.
Publications
Europe (still) hesitant to provide democracy aid, for Encompass, February 2023
The Impact of the War in Ukraine on Central and East European Support for Democracy in 2022, for Carnegie Europe, 1 February 2023
European Democracy Support Annual Review 2021 (co-author), 24 January 2022
Geopolitical Europe: Are We Ready for It? What and How of EU Foreign Policy in 2022, 11 January 2021
Central European Support for Democracy: New Drivers and Challenges, 17 June 2021
The EU Strategic Autonomy: Central and Eastern European Perspectives, 15 June 2021
The EU Strategic Autonomy: Central and Eastern European Perspectives, 15 June 2021
Reinforcing European defence with deeper and wider partnerships (co-author), 5 May 2021
Contending European Views on a New Post-Brexit Balance (co-author), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 25 March 2020
How Does Europe Construct Itself in the East (Too)? (co-author), Institute Montaigne, 8 November 2019
Media appearances
Interview with Kinga Brudzińska, PhD, Programme Director of Future of Europe for GLOBSEC Policy, Stopover Europe, 2020