Jozef Andrew Kosc is an America in the World Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education. He completed his DPhil (PhD) in International Development as a British Commonwealth Doctoral Scholar at Green Templeton College (Oxford) in July 2024. Born in Toronto, Canada to political refugees from Soviet-era Poland, a strong appreciation for liberal democracy underpinned his upbringing. He studied at Sciences Po Paris, the University of Cape Town, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of Toronto—where he graduated in 2015, receiving the John H. Moss Scholarship as the single top graduating senior in his year (+33,000 students). Afterwards, he read for the MSc in Global Governance & Diplomacy at Lincoln College, Oxford (2016), completing his dissertation with a Distinction. In 2016, he was awarded a Queen’s Young Leaders Award from the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee, as one of 282 recipients across the global Commonwealth.
Jozef previously worked for the NATO Association of Canada, and the OECD in Paris. For several years, he served as a Senior Fellow and Academic Director of the Atlantic Council of the UK. In that role, he was frequently invited to attend briefings on international security and foreign policy issues at NATO HQ in Brussels, and at NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), and organized many similar visits for young professionals and students.
Concurrently with his doctoral studies, Jozef taught politics of the Middle East at Magdalen College, and at St Peter’s College, and served as General Editor of the St. Antony’s International Review. He volunteered as an Academic Director for the Pinsker Centre think tank, helping bring numerous speakers to Oxford. Additionally, he founded the Oxford Diplomacy and Geopolitics Forum, as well as the Oxford Summer Programme on International Affairs at St Edmund Hall, bringing together senior policymakers with promising young students from 20+ countries.
Jozef has received numerous international academic awards, and held several prestigious fellowships, including the Canadian Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral scholarship, the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund (CCSF) doctoral scholarship, the Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship (the Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King Scholarship Trust), and the Adam Smith Fellowship at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His DPhil thesis offers an original re-examination of policy decision-making leading up to and concerning the Iraq war (2003), drawing on recently declassified government sources, and extensive primary source interviews with policymakers.
Notwithstanding his professional pursuits, Jozef’s intellectual passions include political philosophy and theology (with a focus on social justice, peacemaking, and interfaith dialogue). He has taught Catholic social thought at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, and held fellowships at the Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies, and at the Catholic University of America. He is also interested in Jewish social thought, and has been actively involved in the Oxford Chabad Society during his time at Oxford. A classically trained performance pianist, accredited by the Royal Conservatory of Music, Jozef enjoys travel and equestrian sports.
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