Representative of the Chancellery of the President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
Experts
Agnieszka Ragin
Simon Raiser
MA in Political Science (Freie Universität Berlin). Research fellow in the German Bundestag, mainly on development policy, and research fellow and coordinator of the research project “Global City Regions as Changing Sites of Governance” at Freie Universität Berlin.
Judit Rajk
Contralto, obtained her diploma in singing and her doctorate at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, where she is now an associate professor at the Church Music Department. She is teaching voice training, methodology and voice training history. Since 2013 she has been teaching voice training at the International Kodaly Institute in Kecskemét.
She is a concert singer and a singer of varieties of song. She has sung in the premieres of numerous contemporary works, some of which were especially dedicated to her. Her Hungaroton Classic CD, on which she sings the main role of the contemporary opera Roman Fever by Gyula Fekete, received an outstanding review in Opera News Magazine. Her latest CD – works by Liszt and Dvorak – was published by the Liszt Academy Budapest.
In 2005 and in 2011, she received the Artisjus Prize for performing new Hungarian contemporary music. Ms. Rajk has performed as a soloist with several orchestras in Hungary and abroad including the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper and the Konzerthaus Orchestra in Berlin, the Simfonietta92 at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertante di Chicago and the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Turkey.
Lászlό Rajk
Architect and designer, a former Hungarian dissident. A Doctor of Liberal Arts from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture. In 1998, he was one of the founders of the Network of Free Initiatives and the Liberal Party, the Alliance of Free Democrats. Between 1990–1996 he has a Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Culture and Member of the Parliament. Since 1992 he has worked as a Professor of Film Architecture at the Hungarian Film Academy in Budapest. From 1995–98 he was an advisor to the Hungarian National UNESCO Committee (World Heritage). In 2003, he became Legal Cultural Advisor to the European Union. A winner of numerous awards, including the Imre Prize (for the design of the reburying of the Martyrs of 1956), and in 2005, Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit and the Solidarity Award (Poland). Since 2014 giving lectures and master classes at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, at the Library of Congress in Washington and the Film Factory Sarajevo University. Art director of “Son of Saul” which wonOscar andGrand Prix at Cannes Festival in 2015.
Josep Ramoneda
Philosopher, writer. Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Founder and head of the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (until 2011). Head of the Institut de la Recherche et de l’Innovation in Paris. Regular contributor to El País and Cadena SER radio. Author of “Apología del presente”, “Después de la pasión política”, “Del tiempo condensado”, and “Contra la indiferencia”.
Márta Ritecz-Sekulic
Márta Ritecz-Sekulic has been the Consul of Hungary in Krakow since October 2020. She was born on June 18, 1991 in Warsaw. She is a graduate of the Corvinus University in Budapest and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She was the Desk Officer for Poland in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary between 2017 and 2020, prior to that she has worked at the Department of Foreign Trade at the MFAT.
Sylvie Roberge
Trainer assistant, Planpolitik.
Mike Robinson
He is the founder of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, the founder and editor of the Routledge published Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change and the Channel View book series on Tourism and Cultural Change now with over thirty titles. He is on the Editorial Boards of several journals including: Mobilities, Levant and the Scandinavian Journal of Tourism. He was pleased to be invited to edit the SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies (with Tazim Jamal). He has worked with UNESCO to produce a major report on Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development and was commissioned to write on tourism and representation for the 2009 UNESCO World Diversity Report. He has worked on research and projects in over 30 countries. He has initiated and directed over 20 international conferences as a way of setting new agendas in research and as a way of developing productive partnerships with academics working in interesting fields and engaging with a wide range of international heritage and cultural institutions.He seeks to work with researchers from a wide variety of disciplines and cultural backgrounds in order to produce innovative and imaginative ways to understand and to translate the inter-relationships between heritage, tourism and culture. For nearly twenty five years, his work has focused upon the inter-relationships between tourism, heritage and culture. Understanding tourism, and ourselves and others as tourists, provides us with an important conceptual lens through which we can interrogate heritage and other dimensions and expressions of culture. His work is international and interdisciplinary. He works at the boundaries of social anthropology, cultural studies, geography and history.
Anatol Roitman
Studied at the University in Novosibirsk. Holds PhD degree in physics. Poet and Russian translator of the Polish poetry. Author of numerous publications in Nowaja Polsza. A special five-language version of Czesław Miłosz’s poem Orpheus and Eurydice (Cracow, 2002) contains his Russian translation. Lives in Akademgorodok.
Bolesław Rok
Member of “Responsible Busines Forum”. Works as independent adviser and consultant of systems of responsibility management. Author of many articles and raports about strategy in social responsibility management.
