Prof. Anna Odrowąż-Coates is an Associate Professor at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw, Poland. She is also the Head of the UNESCO/ Janusz Korczak Chair in Social Pedagogy.

Since October 2020 she is the Vice-Rector for Development, responsible for International Relations. She holds MA in Sociology from University of Gdansk (2002), Post-diploma specialization in PR from Technical University of Gdansk (2002) and a PhD in Political Sciences (2005), followed by Associate Professorship (2016) in Educational Research. Her main areas of scientific achievements centre around education, social inclusion, critical and social pedagogy, and human and children’s rights.