Anna Maria Dyner is a security and eastern affairs analyst at Polityka Insight. She worked at the Polish Institute of International Affairs from 2010 to 2024 and before that at the Centre for Eastern Studies, among others. Her research interests include the area of the former USSR, with a particular focus on the security and foreign policy of Russia and Belarus. She graduated with honours from the Institute of Political Science and the Study of Eastern Europe at the University of Warsaw.