Mirella Panek-Owsiańska

Mirella Panek-Owsiańska is co-founder of the Cosmos for Girls foundation, which prepared one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns in 2017.  Former President of the Responsible Business Forum (FOB), a leading Polish corporate social responsibility (CSR) think-and-do-tank, where she was responsible for external relations with key stakeholders in Poland and abroad (e.g. CSR Europe, World Business for Sustainable Development, Global Compact, etc.).  Mirella is a public speaker, media commentator, academic lecturer, jury member of many contests devoted to communication and CSR, and a member of the Board of Directors of CSR Europe.  A graduate of the School for Leaders and Stanford University courses, she has extensive experience working at the meeting point of the government, non-government, and private sectors.  Mirella provided training for more than 500 women activists from Poland, Belarus, Cuba, Serbia and Kyrgyzstan and worked in two political cabinets of Justice Ministers.  She is a PR specialist and spent four years working as a spokesperson of the Polish section of Amnesty International.  Mirella has gained her knowledge in the fields of political and social marketing in the UK and the United States as a scholarship recipient from Lech Wałęsa, Council of Europe, the U.S. State Department and the Governor of the State of Illinois.