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Anita-BUDZISZEWSKA

ANITA BUDZISZEWSKA

Postdoctoral Researcher, GLOBAL HEALTH CENTRE
Spoken languages
English, Polish

PROFILE:

PHD, THE UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW

ANITA BUDZISZEWSKA is a junior postdoctoral visiting fellow at IHEID. She works at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies and is a member of the Department of Diplomacy and International Institutions. Before joining IHEID, she conducted her research project on “Philanthropy and International Relations" at the Geneva Center for Philanthropy at the University of Geneva funded within the Swiss Government Excellence Programme. She was also a stipendist of Swiss based Anneliese und Mieczyslaw Kocwin Stiftung. She is also a research fellow at the Centre for Philanthropic Studies, the University of Basel.

Her current project at IHEID: “Philanthropic Foundations and International Organizations” focuses on business models of cooperation between selected UN Specialized Agencies and philanthropic sectors, as well as on the political, normative -regulatory, axiological, and financial processes taking place within the UN and its Agencies, in particular within WHO, with regard to evolving presence of philanthropic foundations in the structures and programs of UN/WHO/UN Agencies.

Research areas: International Organisations, with emphasis on Council of Europe and UN/WHO; Philanthropic Foundations and International Organisations; Business models of cooperation between UN Agencies and philanthropic sectors; International Philanthropy, Global (Health) Governance and Global Health Diplomacy; Global and Regional Philanthropy and International Relations; Values, Norms and Culture and International Organisations. 
 

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

●    International Organisations, UN
●    Global Health 
●    Global Governance
●    Private - public partnership 
●    Diplomacy
●    Development and Cooperation
●    Human Rights
●    Art and culture
●    Civil society


 

GEOGRAPHICAL REGION OF EXPERTISE:

  • Europe
  • Poland
  • Global and Regional Studies 
     

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Current research works/projects:

  • Anita Budziszewska in cooperation with J.Villanueva (University of California), “WHO, Global Philanthropic Foundations and Global Health Agenda”
  • Anita Budziszewska, „Global Philanthropy Foundations and International Organizations - why International Organisations need to reevaluate their working strategies?”

Work published - 2024/2025:

  • Anita Budziszewska, Philanthropy in Poland - Country Report,  in:  Philanthropy in Europe. Mapping Donations by Households, Corporations, Foundations and Charity Lotteries, ed. Barry Hoolwerf & Johan Vamstad (forthcoming, 2025/2026).
  • Anita Budziszewska, Lynda Jessup, Meike Lettau, Sarah E.K. Smith, César Villanueva, Eduardo L. Tadeo, Decolonizing International Cultural Relations.  Building Trust, 2025 (series: ICRRA Policy Brief).
  • Anita Budziszewska, “Religion in political and axiological discourse of the Council of Europe”, International Journal of Cultural Policy;  May 2025 (Publisher: Taylor &Francis) https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2025.2501542
  • Anita Budziszewska, Okaka Dokotum, Carla Figueira, James Perkins, Venka Purushothaman, Odila Triebel, Towards More Sustainable Development Multilateral Organisations and Cultural Relations in the 2030 Agenda and beyond, 2024 (series: ICRRA Policy Brief).
  • Anita Budziszewska, as co-authored with O. Potluka (University of Basel), Use of AI and technology by civil society organisations and its international implications in Handbook of AI and Philanthropy, ed. G. Ugazio & M. Maricic, Rutledge 2024.
  • Anita Budziszewska, „On the Axiological Shift in Europe and Its Impact on the European System of Human Rights as Exemplified by the Council of Europe and European Union”, Religion & Human Rights, In: Volume 19: Issue 2-3, November, 2024 (Publisher: Brill), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18710328-bja10044
  • Anita Budziszewska, as co authored with P. Augustyniak (Columbus Private, Suisse), Szwajcaria w stosunkach międzynarodowych: potencjał filantropii w kształtowaniu międzynarodowej pozycji państwa (Switzerland in international relations: the potential of philanthropy in shaping the international position of the state), in: Państwa niemieckojęzyczne w stosunkach międzynarodowych (German speaking countries in IR), ed. J. Starzyk and W. Lizak, Wyd. Scholar, 2025.