Draginja Nadażdin

Draginja Nadażdin (born Nadaždin, She lived in Belgrade for two years. In 1994, she received a scholarship to study in Poland. She graduated from the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw. She also studied at the Human Rights School of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, as well as the Leadership Academy for Poland. She wrote a doctorate on the citizenship laws of former Yugoslav states at the School of Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Among other things, she worked in the Polish humanitarian action. In 2007, she became the director of Amnesty International Poland; In 2015, she became part of the Regional Group overseeing artificial intelligence (AI) activities in Europe. She left the position of director of AI Poland in September 2021. From 2013 to 2016, she was a member of the Program Council of the Zachęta National Gallery. and the Board of the National Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations in 2019.

She has a daughter with her husband Maciej Niedźwiecki.

On July 15, 2021, she was awarded the honorary badge ‘For Merits in the Protection of Human Rights’ by Ombudsman Adam Bodnar.