Mark Brzezinski, US ambassador to Poland, will deliver a lecture at the University of Warsaw (UW) on “Global Leadership: Lessons from the Ukraine Crisis”. The event will take place on May 9.

Mark F. Brzezinski was born in the USA in 1965 and raised in Washington. He is a lawyer by profession. He graduated from Dartmouth, obtained a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in political science from the University of Oxford.

In the years 1999–2001 he worked in the National Security Council under Presidency of Bill Clinton. He was a foreign policy advisor in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

In 2011–2015 he was the US ambassador to Sweden.

He first came to Warsaw on a Fulbright scholarship in 1991 to conduct research on the Constitutional Tribunal. The research resulted in the work “Fight for constitutionalism in Poland”. In 2019, he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.