Speaker Bio

Zbigniew Pisarski is a political analyst, foreign and security policy media commentator, lecturer and social entrepreneur. He is a Founder and President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation, a leading Polish think-tank specialising in foreign policy and security. He is also a co-founder of the European Academy of Diplomacy, first European non-governmental diplomatic academy. Mr. Pisarski is a regular commentator for Polish and international media on European security with focus on Polish foreign and defence policy and relations with post-Soviet states, particularly with Russia. In 2015 he was awarded by the Government of Australia with Endeavour Executive Fellowship in the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Mr. Pisarski holds a master’s degree in European Studies from Vienna University. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Government Department at Harvard University and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University. He has completed his Ph.D. studies at the Warsaw School of Economics where he is preparing his doctoral dissertation.