Dr Olga Wysocka is a cultural manager and political scientist. From 2022 to 2024, she served as director of the Warsaw Cultural Observatory. Prior to that, she was the deputy director of Zachęta–National Gallery of Art (2018 to 2022). From 2009 to 2018, she worked at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (AMI). Since 2014, she served as the Institute’s deputy director. At the AMI, Wysocka managed, among other things, the Foreign Cultural Programme of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council (2011), which featured 400 events in 10 European and non-European capitals over 100 days. She was also responsible for the programme celebrating the 600th anniversary of Poland’s diplomatic relations with Turkey (2014). From 2001 to 2004, she worked at the Polish Institute in Berlin. 

Wysocka studied political science at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Warsaw, and completed a PhD in political science at the European University Institute in Florence. She is a laureate of the Józef Tischner Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and a graduate of the Leadership Academy for Poland. 

Wysocka is the author of several articles and studies on cultural promotion and management, as well as populism and democracy. She lectures at the A. Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw.