Łukaszuk Tomasz

Tomasz Łukaszuk, PhD – PhD in Political Science and Administration (2024), researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw since 2017, previously a member of the Foreign Service of the Republic of Poland in the rank of Titular Ambassador, including Ambassador to the Republic of India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka (2014-2017), Director of the Infrastructure Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2012-2014), Director of the Asia and Pacific Department (2010-2012), Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia and East Timor (2005-2010), Deputy Director of the Asia and Pacific Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2002-2005), Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy in Jakarta (1998-2002).

Since 2017, a member of the World Association for International Studies and participated in research projects under the European Commission grants “Global India” (2017-2021) and “Eurasian Insights: Strengthening Indo-Pacific Studies in Europe” (2018-2022). He has delivered papers and lectures at conferences and seminars, including the ISA (2019, 2023, 2024) and PTSM (2018, 2022, 2023) congresses, at the universities of Heidelberg, Oxford, Leuven, New Delhi (JNU), Mumbai (MU), Benares (BHU), Pondicherry (PU), Dhaka (DU), Jakarta (Binusa, Universitas Indonesia).

He specializes in maritime governance research in maritime security, the law of the sea, maritime economy, and environmental protection. He actively supports the development of cooperation with universities from Asia. He is involved in organizing numerous conferences devoted to Poland’s foreign policy and international relations in the Asia-Pacific region, including within the framework of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. He is the scientific supervisor of the Pacific Area States Student Circle at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies. He supports the activities of the Student Forum of Young Diplomats.

Research interests

Maritime governance, integration processes in South and Southeast Asia, cooperation of states in the Indian Ocean basin.

Unit

Department of Regional and Global Studies

Recent publications:

T. Łukaszuk, Maritime governance in the Indo-Pacific, in “Routledge Handbook of Indo-Pacific Studies,” Routledge India, 2023, pp. 306-328

T. Łukaszuk, Comparative Study of Maritime Governance in the Global South – in Search for the Broader Cooperation, Polish Political Science Yearbook, vol. 53(4) (2024), Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, pp. 141–164

T. Łukaszuk, The European Union (EU) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)—Fields for Cooperation and Convergence of Interests in the Blue Economy in the Twenty-First Century, in The South China Sea: The Geo-political Epicenter of the Indo-Pacific?, Springer Nature Link, 2025, pp. 63–79