Dominika Kasprowicz is an academic researcher and international projects' manager, PhD (Degree) in Political Science (2010), Associate Professor at the Jagiellonian University (Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication), holder of the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management, graduee of the IVLP programme, since 2016 CEO of the Villa Decius, Poland - cultural institution, residency for artists and scholars at risk, awarded with a title of Ambassador of Multiculralism by a City of Krakow (2023). Member of several executive boards and expert panels i.e. of "SO-CLOSE Enhancing Social Cohesion through Sharing the Cultural Heritage of Forced Migrations" H2020 project, member of the Interdisciplinary Team of OPEN KRAKOW Programme untill 2023), UNAEuropa Heritage Lab. Initiator of numerous programmes adressing the needs of refugees and migrants, minorities in Poland, coordinator of the ICORN Programme in Krakow. Her research area includes cultural diplomacy and management, political communication, populism and social innovations in politics. Choice of co-authored publications: "Communicating Populism. Comparing Actor Perceptions, Media Coverage, and Effects on Citizens in Europe", Routledge, 2019, "Politics, Society and the Economy in Contemporary Poland. An Introduction", Scholar 2016.
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Dominika Kasprowicz
Tomasz Kasprowicz
Expert in the field of economy. Doctor of Finances. A graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, National Louis University. Academic lecturer with over a decade of experience on three continents. Commentator and journalist, at home and abroad (including Polityka, Gazeta Bankowa, obserwatorfinansowy.pl, Visegrad Insight, Reporter). Range of specialization include: markets and financial institutions, pension systems, entrepreneurship, fiscal and monetary policy, the tax system. Currently, Assistant professor at the University of Business in Dąbrowa Górnicza. Since 2008, an entrepreneur in the IT industry in southern Poland. Editor of the economics department at Res Publica Nowa. In the past, a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Tamás Katona
Ambassador of The Republic of Hungary to Poland (2000-2002). Professor of history and politician. 1998-2000 professor and lecturer at Károli Gáspár Protestant University, Budapest. 1990-1998 Member of Parliament (Hungarian Democratic Forum, Hungarian Democratic People's Party). 1990-1992 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 1992-1994 Secretary of State, Prime Minister's Office.
Jan Kavan
MA in journalism at the Charles University, leader of the 1960s student movement in Prague. Following the Warsaw Pact invasion in Czechoslovakia in 1968 he was forced to emigrate to the UK. He studied International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Politics at the University of Reading and in the St Anthony’s College, Oxford University. Founder of Palach Press Agency in London in 1974, which later became the main press agency for Czechoslovak opposition in the Western Europe. It was also the main distributor in the world of documents and reports issued by human rights movement Charter 77. He also formed the Jan Palach Information and Research Trust (JPIRT) which provided Czechoslovak dissidents with books and technical equipment and supported underground university courses. Founder of the East European Cultural Foundation (EECF) and the prestigious quarterly East European Reporter, which published all important documents and articles written by dissidents in Eastern and Central European countries. Returned to Prague from political exile in November 1989 and was elected in June 1990 to the Federal Assembly (Parliament). A notable academic career included posts as the Visiting Professor of Politics and History at the Adeplhi University in New York and as the Karl Loewenstein Fellow in Politics and Jurisprudence at the Amherst College in Massachusetts. He holds several honorary degrees, including the Honorary Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Honorary Doctor of Humane letters at the Adeplhi University. 1973-1989 lecturer at the Institute of Adult Education in London. 1998-2002 Minister of Foreign Affairs. 1999 - 2002 Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign and Security Policy. President of the 57th session of the United Nations General Assembly (2002-2003). June 2002-2006 Deputy to the Czech Parliament, where he worked as Vice-President in the Foreign Affairs Committee. Foreign affairs adviser to the President of the Chamber of Deputies (Parliament) 2007- . Winner of numerous awards for achievements in the strife for democracy and human rights.
Jana Kavková
Jana SmiggelKavkovás studied Political Science in Leiden, The Netherlands. She has been working in the field of gender equality since 2005. As a member and later chair of Commission on Equal Representation of Women and Men in Politics, she cooperated on drafting a law proposal introducing quotas. In 2010 Forum 50 % ran a successful campaign to support women in the elections resulting in election of 14 women MPs by using preferential votes. Jana is member of Council for Equal Opportunities of Women and Men of the Government and board member of European Women´s Lobby.
Konstantin Kavtaradze
Since 2011 Ambassador of Georgia to Finland and Sweden. Graduated from Tbilisi State University of Foreign Languages and Vienna Diplomatic Academy. In 1990 joined the diplomatic service. From 1990-1993 served as II secretary of the Division for Economic Cooperation, II secretary and later, Director of Division for Cultural and Humanitarian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. In 1993-1994 member of the Permanent Delegation of Georgia to the CSCE (later OSCE). In 1994-1995 Director of Division for Humanitarian Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. 1995-2000 Consul at the Consulate General of Georgia in Athens. 2000-2001 Director of OSCE Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. In 2001-2004 Deputy Director and later, Director of the Department for International Cultural Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. From 2004-2006 held the post of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to Poland (2006–2011).
Marcin Kędzierski
Research and teaching assistant at the Department of European Studies of the Cracow University of Economics. He graduated from the Cracow University of Economics in International Relations and European Studies (MA) and in Economy and Public Administration (PhD). He completed internships at the Polish Embassy in Germany, European Parliament in Brussels and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. He runs one of the oldest NGO in Poland, the Jagiellonian Club, which operates i.a. in the field of Visegrad region cooperation (he is personally responsible for the new internet portal aimed at Visegrad+ politics and economy). He covers Polish internal and foreign policy, the European integration processes, EU institutions and EU sector policies with special focus on economic and foreign policy issues.
Matěj Keka
Matěj Keka is the founder of the Speechless Reconciliation project. Project that focuses on the development of youth from orphanages. As the founder & leader of the project he is responsible for the implementation, long term direction and overseeing of the overall expansion of the concept.
He graduated from the University in West Bohemia in International Relations and currently is pursuing his Master in Public Administration in Prague at Cevro Institute. He is also one of the current members of the Martin-Robinson Security Scholars Academy at the Prague Security Studies Institute.
In 2021 he graduated from the European Academy of Diplomacy flagship program in the Art of Diplomacy.
He was a member of the winning team of the Young European Leadership organization of the hackathon challenge in 2021 organized by the European Commission on the topic of circular economy.
He is currently working in the private sector in the FMCG company.
Friederike Kenneweg
Voice and noise musician, journalist and writer. Her main point of interest is the crossroad between writing, language, voice, sound and music. She studied Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen with the composer Heiner Goebbels and worked as a sound designer at the Municipal Theatre in Gießen, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Theater unterm Dach and Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin. As a journalist, she writes about literature and contemporary music being specialized on short pieces of prose. She also produces radio plays and features. In November 2011, she resided in Praha sponsored by a scholarship of the German federal state Hessen.
Alexander Kiossev
Professor in History of Modern Culture and Director of Cultural Center of the University of Sofia. His research interests are in the spheres of reading research, cultural history of communist totalitarianism, post-colonial studies and construction of identities. He published a book on the history of Bulgarian literature and another two on cultural history of the transition period in Eastern Europe; recently he published the monograph “The Quarrels about Reading” (2013,Sofia: Ciela, in Bulgarian). He was editor of the collective volume “Post-Theory, Games and Discursive Resistance”, and the collective volume “Rules” and“Roles”. Fluid Institutions, Hybrid Roles and Identities in East European Transformation Processes (1989–2005).Many of his essays are translated in English, German, French, Dutch, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Serbian and Macedonian languages. Since 2000 he has been a leader of several international research projects dedicated to the Balkan cultures, reading problems and autobiographies.
