Beata Ociepka

Ph.D., is professor of international relations and international communication and Head of the Public Diplomacy Lab at the Institute for International and Security Studies (ISMiB), University of Wrocław. She previously served as Chair of the Section of Communication and Public Relations at the University of Warsaw (2017), as Chair in Political Science at the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies, University of Wrocław (2002–2004), and as Director of the Institute of International Studies (2009–2011) at the same university. She is Head of the International Communication Section of the Polish Association for International Studies and, since 2023, Head of WP 3 of the EU Horizon NARDIV project. Professor Ociepka specialises in public diplomacy and international communication research, and is the author of around 150 publications, including the book Poland’s New Ways of Public Diplomacy (Peter Lang, 2017).