Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz is an assistant professor at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw. She has nearly 15 years of expertise in government administration focusing on state policy toward ethnic and national minorities, with a particular emphasis on coordinating integration policy for the Roma community in Poland. From 2008 to 2014, Mirga-Wójtowicz held the position of Plenipotentiary of the Małopolska Governor for National and Ethnic Minorities, demonstrating her commitment to minority rights and inclusion. She has authored evaluation reports for the European Commission as part of the Roma Civil Monitor project (2017-2020) and Roma Civil Monitor II (2021-2025).

In addition to her administrative roles she is an activist and researcher, an author of academic and popular science articles addressing Roma issues. She serves on the board of the Jaw Dikh Foundation and is a member of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC).

Elżbieta collaborates extensively with various organizations and institutions in the Roma community, including the OSCE/ODIHR/Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues, National Democratic Institute , International Organization for Migration IOM, European Commission, Council of Europe, Central European University (CEU), and European Roma Grassroots Organization (ERGO) Network. She was a fellow of the U.S. Department of State International Leadership Visitor Program (2010) and a graduate of the Roma Access Program at Central European University (2006). Additionally, she completed an internship at the European Commission in 2005.

Within ROCIT Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz is a post-doctoral researcher, particularly interested in transnational and grass-root Roma mobilisation and solidarity to support Ukrainian Roma as well as unequal citizenship.