Bogdan Zawadewicz is the Head of Geopolitical Risk Analysis at the Polish Development Bank (BGK). He graduated from the Institute of Political Sciences of the University of Warsaw. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked at the Center for Eastern Studies (OSW) and at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg, where he was a member of the research group "Frozen and Unfrozen Conflicts." Additionally, he participated in scientific and research internships at institutions such as the London School of Economics IDEAS, the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, the Center for Southeast European Studies in Graz, the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, as well as universities in Niš, Novi Sad, and Bucharest. He was also a scholarship holder of the German BAYHOST. Furthermore, he collaborated as a consultant with the Goethe Institute in Tel Aviv on the project "Negotiations Matter," which focused on the armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.