Marta Lenartowicz is a Polish interdisciplinary researcher, educator, and author. She is based at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium, where she serves as the Director of Education and Senior Researcher at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (CLEA). She is also the Principal at Buckminster College, an innovative learning institution she helped establish in 2020.

Lenartowicz’s research interests span cognitive science, complexity studies, social epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. Her work focuses on theoretical approaches to the evolution of intelligence, cognitive development, distributed cognition, and collective intelligence in human and techno-human systems. She holds a PhD in Humanistic Management from Jagiellonian University (2014), where her dissertation on applying autopoietic systems theory to forecast change in academic institutions earned her the Faculty’s best dissertation award. She also has a Master’s in Philosophy with a specialization in the Theory of Language from Jagiellonian (2001).

Notable initiatives Lenartowicz has founded include the postgraduate School of Thinking program at VUB, the Ars Docendi teaching excellence program at Jagiellonian University, and the lifelong learning center Wszechnica UJ. She has authored 11 books, including The Practice of Thinking and Social Systems: Where is the Ground?. Lenartowicz has over twenty years of experience leading educational, research, and policy development projects internationally.

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