SIETAR Polska Board

Lidia’s passion as a President of SIETAR Polska is to bring humanistic values to the SIETAR ecosystem – in Poland, in Europe, and beyond. She recognises the important role SIETAR plays in creating intercultural discourse that influences societies globally. Drawing on Poland’s rich historical experience of cultural, religious, and linguistic diversity, she believes SIETAR Polska can play a significant voice in building deeper cultural understanding – in Poland, in the EU, and in the world. She also sees SIETAR as a space for dialogue and a channel for better understanding between people born in different places on Earth.
Dr. Wiśniewska is a Research Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) in Lima and CENTRUM Católica, the Business School in Lima. She is an international researcher, evaluator, facilitator, and creator of internationalisation and innovation strategies in higher education. She publishes in interdisciplinary journals, making visible the importance of intercultural competence across fields including higher education, legal studies, artificial intelligence, and cultural diplomacy. She is an advocate of learner-centred methodology, cultural conversations, gamification, intelligent internationalisation, and cultural diplomacy.
For over twenty years, she has lived and worked in Spain, Norway, Great Britain, Ukraine, South Korea, the USA, and France, collaborating with people from across the world. She holds an international PhD in the assessment of the internationalisation of higher education, with research conducted in Spain, South Korea, Italy, France, and the USA. She has participated in several international programmes, including Erasmus Mundus Mundusfor. She is an ISO observer at the French delegation. She created the diversophy® Ambassador project and served as Chair of the External Relations Committee at SIETAR Europa.

Sebastian Jabłoński is a PhD candidate in Anglophone literary studies at the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on Pacific literature and history, with particular attention to Pitcairn Island, colonial representations of islands, and the relationship between culture, narrative, and power. He is also interested in intercultural communication, civic education, public-facing humanities, and the ways in which stories, images, and language shape our understanding of other cultures.

He has experience in university teaching, event organization, panel moderation, and academic communication. He has worked within international academic and cultural networks, especially in the fields of postcolonial studies, Pacific studies, and intercultural education. He has also been involved with the New Zealand Studies Association, supporting communication and event promotion.

In SIETAR Polska, Sebastian serves as Vice-President. In this role, he would like to support spaces for intercultural dialogue, reflection on diversity, and the practical connection of humanities-based knowledge with education, civil society organizations, and public life.