Emilia Kowalewska (MA Cantab) LLM holds a Law Degree from the University of Cambridge, an LL.M. degree in International Human Rights Law (magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame), and an M.A. in Society & Politics (with merit from the University of Lancaster).

She completed her doctoral research at the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Graduate School of Social Research, combining it with work as a research assistant at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and as a visiting researcher at the University of Warsaw. She conducted part of her doctoral research as a Visiting Student at the European University Institute in Florence (2021-22). At the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ISP PAN), she conducted and presented research within the Department of Global Security and Strategic Studies and the Department of Studies on Elites and Political Institutions (2019–2022). Her research on constitutionalism, transitional justice and collective memory has been published by Cambridge University Press and leading socio-legal journals. She has collaborated with the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES) and presented her research at international workshops and conferences – including at ICON.S, the global conference of the International Society of Public Law (Madrid, 2024).

Her prior academic research assignments included updates to a leading Oxford University Press textbook on regional protection of human rights. She has several years of experience as a human rights and anti-trafficking expert at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, and has organised training sessions, seminars, interviews, focus groups, and monitoring missions in several OSCE participating States. As a researcher and PRINCE2 accredited project manager she has coordinated or contributed to several research funding proposals in collaboration with international academic partners. She serves on the Board of the IPSA Research Committee on Political Finance and Political Corruption.