Biography

Wojciech Białożyt is a policy analyst and executive with extensive experience gained in Poland and on the EU level. In 2023/2024, Wojciech was Policy Leader Fellow at Florence School of Transnational Governance conceptualizing the place of democracy in the European security architecture.

Since 2019, he serves as Member of the Management Board of the Bronisław Geremek Foundation in Warsaw, a body named after Poland's democracy architect and visionary European. He represents the Foundation in the EP Network of Political Houses and Foundations of Great Europeans.

In the past, he worked as Policy Development Adviser on democracy and security at ALDE Party in Brussels and as Managing Director of WiseEuropa, a Warsaw-based think-tank devoted to research in areas of European policies. His passion for history found its realisation while serving as Managing Director of Jan Karski Educational Foundation, a Polish American public diplomacy endeavour, devoted to safeguarding the legacy of the first eyewitness of the Holocaust who reached the Allies.

Within the Visegrad Fund Research Grant at the Historical Archives of the European Union, Wojciech researches on a parallel diplomacy of Solidarity movement with European institutions 1980-1989 examining the foundations of future Europe’s reunification.

Wojciech graduated from Executive Master of Public Administration at Hertie School in Berlin and International School of Political Science at the University of Silesia in Katowice.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Eastern Europe as Laboratory of Change
• Transnational Democracy in the 21st century

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• BIALOZYT, Wojciech (2024), Is democracy becoming a factor in the EU's security? : the evolution of EU policies and discourses resulting from the war in Ukraine, Other
• BIALOZYT, Wojciech; SUS, Monika (2024), From centre of attention to centre of gravity : implications of the Polish parliamentary elections for its democracy and security policy, Other