Dr. Katarzyna Anna Nawrot is a Polish economist and international relations scholar at the Department of Regional and Global Studies, Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies, University of Warsaw. She is Deputy Chair of the Committee for Future Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences and serves as Plenipotentiary of the Vice-Rector for Research for cooperation with the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). She holds a PhD in Economics from Poznan University of Economics and Business and a DSc in Social Sciences. Her research focuses on development economics, international economics, and Asia-Pacific regional cooperation and integration, including Southeast Asia and China. She has held fellowships at Harvard Kennedy School, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and Central South University in China.