Nawrot Katarzyna Anna

dr hab. Katarzyna Anna Nawrot – is a Polish economist and international relations researcher at the Department of Regional and Global Studies, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw, since 2024. She holds a PhD in Economics (2006) and DSc (habilitation) in Social Sciences (2022). She serves as Plenipotentiary of the Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Warsaw for CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment), Chair of the the University of Warsaw Committee for Advancement of Research Assessment Schemes (since 2025), and as Deputy Chair of the Committee for Future Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2023). Previously, she held academic positions as Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Lecturer at the PoznańUniversity of Economics and Business (2007-2024). She was a research fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (2011–2012) and J.F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2013–2014). Additionally, she was a senior scholar at the School of Public Administration at the Central South University in China (2020-2022). She is an alumna of Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education (HKSEE 2019, 2020, 2022), and in 2022, she received an Executive Certificate in Economic Development from Harvard University.

Katarzyna chaired and was a principal investigator in a number of research projects for the European Commission, the National Science Center in Poland, and other international institutions. That included among others “East Asia in regional and global governance”, “Theoretical, institutional and empirical conditions and premises of economic potential and synergies of African countries and Polish economy”, “Developing countries in contemporary world economy”, “Opportunities and Challenges of One Belt One Road: Perspective from China and Central and Eastern European Countries”. She has been a visiting professor at numerous universities across Europe, Asia, and Africa and has advised and provided consultancy for national and local governments, the European Commission, COMESA, the African Union, and other public and private institutions in Europe and worldwide. Her academic achievements have earned her recognition from Poland’s Minister of Science and Higher Education with scholarship for outstanding young scholars in 2012-2015. She wasnominated as a European Young Leader (Class 2017) and awarded Women of the Decade in Development Economics by Women Economic Forum (2018). She has lectured and presented research papers – among others – in Cambridge (Massachusetts), Khartoum, Dhaka, Geneva,Kolkata, Kampala, Oxford, Paris, Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, and Tokio.

Research interests

International economic and political relations, development economics, international economics, development studies, international political economy, international relations in Asia and the Pacific, cooperation and integration, regionalism, issues of developing countries, issues and methodology of measurements, research assessment, the world economy, East Asia, China, ASEAN.

Unit

Department of Regional and Global Studies

Selected publications:

• Kleiber M., K.A. Nawrot, K. Sobiech-Grabka (2026) (red.), Przyszłość energii [The Future of Energy], Polska Akademia Nauk, Komitet Prognoz Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa, ss. 144.
• Yoon, J. H., Y. W. Goo, & K.A. Nawrot (2024). The linked movement of the housing market and stock market in the G7 asset economy, Journal of International Studies, 17(4), 80-89. doi:10.14254/2071-8330.2024/17-4/5.
•  Kleer J., K.A. Nawrot (2024), System kulturowy a rozwój [The Cultural system and development], Poznańskie Wydawnictwo Przyjaciół Nauk, Poznań, ss. 275.
•  Nawrot K.A. (2023), Assessing the effects of trade regionalism in East Asia – evidence from augmented gravity models, Applied Economics, s. 1-13, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2022.2097181.
•  Nawrot K.A. (2021), Współpraca i integracja gospodarcza Azji Wschodniej. Studiumteoretyczno-empiryczne [Economic cooperation and integration of East Asia: theoretical and empirical study], Polskie Wydawnictwo Ekonomiczne, Warszawa, ss. 452.