Philosopher, sociologist, journalist. Lecturer at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. He was awarded the Polish Pulitzer-Prize PRESS for the best publicist of the year 1999.
Experts
Janusz Majcherek
Jakub Majmurek
Jakub Majmurek (1982) – film and art critic, political columnist and philosopher. Co-author of many book concerning movies (Story of Sin. Surrealism in Polish cinema) and social and political philosophy (L’idée du communisme II). He writes mainly for Dziennik Opinii, liberal on-line journal of opinion.
Olga Maksymenko
She is public relations professional and career and life coach, author of LIFE STYLIST project. Holds MA in Sociology from Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, MA in Political Science from Central European University (Hungary) and Advanced Certificate in PR from Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR, UK). She has extensive experience in public relations, worked for business, NGO sectors and diplomatic representations, including EU Delegation to Ukraine and British Embassy to Ukraine. As a certified life and career coach, she helps recent graduates and young professionals who are already part of the working world to identify the career they desire and deserve and to navigate the transition towards it.
Olivier Maltinti
Is an artist with a wide range of talents. As an actor he is known for «Les sièges de l‘Alcazar» (1989), «Le système Zsigmondy» (2000) and «Le prestige de la mort» (2006). He played in 8 films of Luc Moullet. Apart from film acting he showed up at various theatres in France and Europe, both as actor and dancer. Furthermore he produced radio features and works as director, author and – under the name of “Oliver Night” – also as songwriter, singer, guitarist and producer. As a musician he goes his own way without caring too much about fashions and success. From the very beginning of his musical work, he shares his “French Indie Rock” with his audience in a logic of exchange rather than in a commercial one. From 2005 till 2015, as musician, he worked in studio, or shared the stage for shows or performances during tours in France, Europe or the USA with other musicians from several nations.
Anton Marcinčin
Studied at the CERGE-EI Prague, completed his dissertation at the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam and CEP of the London School of Economics and Political Science, holds also PhD degree at the Charles University in Prague. The World Bank country economist for Slovakia and Slovenia, 1990-2001 editor of Economic Policy in Slovakia. He is also an editor of finances magazine – the Czech Journal of Economics and Finance. During his work at the Czech Academy of Science, MESA10, Centre for Economic Development and Slovak Foreign Policy Association, contributed to several books and published many articles on corporate governance, labour market and public finance. Lecturer at the Charles University in Prague, the Trnava University and at the Comenius University in Bratislava.
Piotr Marecki
Expert in cultural studies, publisher (Ha!art publishing house), editor, and lecturer at the Chair of Contemporary Culture of the Faculty of Culture at the Jagiellonian University, the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School (PWSFTviT) in Łódź and the Kraków School of Screenplay. His interests include Polish literature after 1989, independent culture, new media literature, film adaptations, and screenwriting. He recently edited the book “Hiperteksty literackie. Literatura nowych mediów” (“Literary Hypertexts. New Media Literature”, Kraków 2011), and published the monograph “Czycz i filmowcy, czyli przyliteracki status kina polskiego” (“Czycz and Filmmakers: the Relationship between Polish Cinema and Literature”, Kraków 2012).
Jiří Marek
Studies in history and political sciences at the Charles University in Prague, major in political
science-international relations. Focused on the problems of civil-military relations and security studies. Scholarship at University of Santiago de Compostela. Worked in Czech NATO Summit Task Force and in the preparations of Prague NATO Summit 2002. At the dawn of the Iraqi crisis started to work as Secretary to the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic.
Petr Mareš
Petr Mareš is the Executive Director of the Visegrad Fund. PhD in Czechoslovak and World History, he was Director of the Institute of International Politics (1993-1995) and Chair of the Department of American Studies (1995-1998) of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University (Prague). He also held the position of Deputy Prime Minister (2002-2004) of the Government of Czech Republic and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Minister of Defense (2004-2006). Between 2006 and 2010 he was Ambassador to the Kingdom of Netherlands, then Ambassador of the Special Envoy for Eastern Partnership (2010-2015) and Consul General in Istanbul, Turkey (2015-2019).
Jerzy Margański
Ambassador of Poland to Germany since 2013. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow; Doctor of Humanities, Professor at Gustav-Sieerth-Akademie, Germany. Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990. Second Secretary, subsequently First Secretary and Counsellor of the Polish Embassy in Bonn (1990-1995). Vice-Director, subsequently Director of Department of Europe-West (1995-1997). Minister Plenipotentiary at the Representation of the Polish Embassy in Berlin (1997-1999). Director of the Secretariat of the Minister (1999-2001). In the years 2001-2005 Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Switzerland. Ambassador of Poland to Austria (2008-2013).
Omar Marques
Omar Marques is a Portuguese freelance photojournalist from the northwest of Portugal. Photographing wild twin pandas in the Austrian Alps or the biggest and most evil ice maze in the world located next to the Polish Himalayas, were some of the most dangerous assignments he ever faced. Omar works as a freelance photojournalist for several news agencies on editorial and commercial assignments and has his own studio in the Polish Siberia, KRAKOW. Besides providing news coverage around Central and Eastern Europe and the Wild Balkans, he works on personal long term projects. Since 2015, he has been working on a project regarding the refugee crisis in Europe. Some of Omar pictures have been published in Times, The New York Times, CNBC, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Paris Match, Le Point, Newsweek Poland, Peninsula Qatar, La Croix among others.
