Dr Anita Budziszewska is an academic in the Department of Diplomacy and International Institutions at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw. She also works as a researcher at the Centre for Philanthropy Studies at the University of Basel. She cooperates in teaching and research with the University of Geneva on philanthropy and with the University of Vienna on culture, politics, and visual politics.
She previously served as the Dean’s Representative for International Cooperation within the Erasmus+ programme.
In 2023–2024, she held a Swiss government research scholarship at the Geneva Centre for Philanthropy, University of Geneva. Her postdoctoral project examined how cultural, political, and value-related factors shape philanthropy in international relations. During the same period, she received a fellowship from the Annelise and Mieczysław Koćwin Foundation in Therwil, Switzerland, for research on philanthropy and philanthropic activities among the Polish community in Switzerland.
She is a member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP), the International Studies Association (ISA), and the European International Studies Association (EISA). She also belongs to the International Cultural Relations Research Alliance (ICRRA), associated with the British Council and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.
In 2020, she served as a member of Poland’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva during the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council. From 2020 to 2021, she was an external expert on “Poland360”, a project concerning Polish minorities abroad, organised and funded by the Kresy.rp Foundation and the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.
She has also cooperated with the Polish Olympic Committee and the Polish Corporation of Sports Managers on training covering diplomatic protocol and ceremonial practices in sport.
Her experience includes academic, professional, and study visits to the Permanent Mission of Poland to the United Nations Office at Geneva, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the University of Zurich, and the University of Oxford. She has delivered lectures and presented academic papers at universities and conferences in Canada, the United States, Japan, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Croatia, Hungary, and the United Kingdom.
She obtained her PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Warsaw.
Research interests:
philanthropy and international relations; international and global philanthropy; the regional role of philanthropic foundations; relations between philanthropic foundations and international organisations, particularly the United Nations; Polish philanthropy; political and cultural determinants of philanthropy; culture and values in international relations and international law.