Marcin Bużański

about

Political scientist, foreign and security policy expert. He currently serves as Director of the Center for Diplomacy and Negotiation at Civitas University and Senior Advisor at the Warsaw Security Forum.

He focuses on advising governments, international organizations and think-tanks on issues of foreign and security policy, responding to international conflicts and crises and post-conflict institutional development. He has consulted for the EU, OSCE, UN, GMF, IPU, UNDP among others. 

Previously, he co-founded and was President of the Expertise on Demand – a global experts network. He spent several years working at the UN on governance, peacebuilding and crises response. He was stationed at both UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva. He also worked as head of the political transition support project in Somalia, and on post-conflict governance, primarily in Africa and Middle East regions, including response planning after the so-called ‘Arab Spring’, and in supporting political transitions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also advised the UN in Sudan (Darfur), South Sudan, Liberia and concerning projects in Central Asia.

He graduated from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York as well as from the Institute for International Affairs and the European Centre – both Departments of the University of Warsaw.