Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala, Ph.D., Prof. – Full Professor of Political Science, researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, University of Warsaw. Head of the Department of Strategic Studies and International Security (since June 2025). Chair of the Scientific Council for the discipline of “Security Studies” (2025–2028). Deputy Director of the Institute of International Relations at the University of Warsaw, responsible for research and international cooperation (2008–2012). Senior Specialist and Analyst at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (2006–2008). Project manager for “Preventing Mass Human Rights Violations, ” funded by the National Science Center (2013–2017). Co-initiator of joint activities within the framework of NOHA, namely: The Humanitarian Action Network and many other national and international research projects. Recipient of a scholarship from the Jan Karski Educational Foundation during a leadership seminar at Georgetown in 2016. Chair of the Committee of the Garden of the Righteous Foundation (since 2023). Author of numerous scholarly publications and papers presented at academic conferences.
Research Interests
International relations; Polish foreign and security policy; international organizations; humanitarian issues; human rights; human security; international crimes.