Prof. Maria Pasztor, Ph.D. – professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Warsaw, visiting professor at Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris I), a fellow at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, the Free University of Brussels, Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris III), Sorbonne University (Paris IV), the Lanckoroński Foundation, and Sapienza University of Rome. In 2017, she was awarded the prestigious French Order of the Palmes Académiques.