Maciej Olchawa is the author of several books on Ukraine. Between 2022–24, he was the Kosciuszko Foundation Scholar at Loyola University Chicago where he lectured on Polish and Eastern European politics. He received his PhD in political science from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he also earned MA degrees in Central and Eastern European studies and Ukrainian studies. Between 2008–12, he served as a policy adviser on Ukraine in the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.