Georgetown Americas Institute

Witold Janas is a visiting researcher at the Georgetown Americas Institute. He holds an LLM in European Union law from the College of Europe in Bruges and is currently a PhD candidate in international law at the University of Warsaw and Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas (joint supervision). His dissertation examines anti-deforestation safeguards in trade agreements between the EU and Latin America, emphasizing TSD chapters and their relationship with unilateral tools such as the EUDR.

Witold has authored several analyses and policy briefs for the Observatory on the Implementation of the EU-Mercosur Agreement at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and has been a visiting researcher at the Universidad de Chile and the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He taught EU external relations law at Panthéon-Assas and a course on EU law and Latin American integration at the University of Chile. He also served as a team coordinator in the "Cambio de roles" academic-legislative training program of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, attended a session of the Mercosur Parliament in Montevideo in 2025 as an observer, and interned at the European Parliament. His research has been presented during conferences at  PUC-Rio, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Universidade de Brasília, and IE University in Madrid.

He is a recipient of the Kościuszko Foundation Fellowship and of the France Excellence Scholarship of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. He was a U.S. Department of State Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellow in 2018 and is an honorary citizen of the City of Bruges, Belgium.