PhD Anita Budziszewska – PhD in social sciences (University of Warsaw). Holder of the “Swiss Confederation Research Excellence Scholarship” for foreign researchers at the Geneva Centre for Philanthropy, University of Geneva (2023-2024), research postdoc project: “Philanthropy and international relations: how do cultural, political and axiological settings determine philanthropy?”. Holder of the Swiss based Annelise and Mieczyslaw Koćwin Foundation grant (Therwil, Switzerland), research project: “Philanthropy and philanthropic activities of the Polish community and Poles living in Switzerland” ( 2023-2024). Research fellow at the Centre for Philanthropy Studies, University of Basel (Switzerland). Member of the Academic Council of the United Nations System.
She collaborates didactically and academically with the University of Geneva (on philanthropy) and the University of Vienna (on culture and politics/visual politics). In the past, she has served, among others, as Dean’s Representative for international cooperation within the framework of the Erasmus+ (EU) program and was a member of the Polish Mission to the UN (Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations Office at Geneva) during the 43rd session (2020) of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva (43rd session of UN HRC).
In 2020-2021 she was an external expert for the project on Polish minorities living abroad – Poland360 organized/funded by the Kresy.rp Foundation and the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. She also cooperated with the Polish Olympic Committee and the Polish Corporation of Sports Managers in training organized by, among others, the Polish Olympic Committee on elements of diplomatic protocol and ceremonials in sports. She took part in academic, professional and study internships at: Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations Office in Geneva, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the University of Zurich and the University of Oxford.
Author of international speeches, lectures and papers abroad at universities and scientific conferences organized in: Canada, United States, Japan, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Croatia, Hungary, United Kingdom. Member of the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP), the International Studies Association (ISA), the European International Studies Association (EISA) and the International Cultural Relations Research Alliance (ICRRA) under the aegis of the British Council and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.
Research interests
Philanthropy and international relations, international philanthropy/global and regional role of philanthropic foundations; philanthropic foundations and international organizations/UNs; Polish philanthropy, political and cultural determinants of philanthropy; culture and values in international relations and international law.
Unit
Department of Diplomacy and International Institutions
Recent publications:
Anita Budziszewska, On the Axiological Shift in Europe and Its Impact on the European System of Human Rights as Exemplified by the Council of Europe and European Union, Religion & Human Rights, (Brill), November, 2024 (double blind review Journal)
Anita Budziszewska, Oto Potluka (University of Basel, Switzerland), The use of AI and technology by civil society organizations and its international implications, in The Routledge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Philanthropy, Edited by Giuseppe Ugazio, Milos Maricic, Routledge, 2024 (chapter in book)
Anita Budziszewska, Okaka Dokotum, Carla Figueira, James Perkins, Venka Purushothaman, Odila Triebel, Towards More Sustainable Development Multilateral Organisations and Cultural Relations in the 2030 Agenda and beyond, Policy Briefs, 2024 (series: ICRRA Policy Brief).
