He graduated from King’s College London with the first-class honour degree in History and International Relations. He is currently studying at Peking University as a part of the Peking University – London School of Economics and Political Science double graduate degree in International Affairs. His research interests include energy security, political and economic relations of Northeast Asia and the Cold War history in the Third World. Waldemar spends his free time reading detective stories and horrors and participating in Model United Nations conferences.