Professor of Economic Policy and International Economics. Between 1972 and 1992, expert for various international organizations (UNIDO, World Bank, European Commission, ILO). Established and became first director of World Economy Research Institute at WSE in Warsaw. Was a Director of Foreign Trade Research Institute, Head of Transition Economies Section, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, Adviser to the President of the European Commission and Member of the European Parliament. Author and/or co-author of over 250 publications including six books.
Experts
Dariusz Rosati
Goran Rosenberg
Born in Sweden. Writer and journalist. Graduated in 1970 from University of Stockholm, where he studied mathematics, philosophy, political science and journalism. Since 1970 works as a journalist and correspondent for major Swedish newspapers and Swedish Television. Regular columnist and essayist of the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens
Nyheter. PhD at the University of Gothenburg. In 1990 founded the Swedish monthly magazine of essays and opinions, Moderna Tider. Among his books are: An essay on the American idea, Norstedts 1991 and A personal history of Zionism, Messianism and the State of Israel, Bonniers 1996. His essays were translated and published in Neue Züricher Zeitung, Lettre Internationale, Daedalus and New Perspectives Quarterly and others. Works also as documentalist: The Black City with the White House (Golden Nymph award for best news documentary in 1990).
Adam Daniel Rotfeld
PhD dissertation on the right of self-determination of peoples in modern international law at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow (1969). Habilitation on European Security System in Statu Nascendi; in 2001 appointed Professor at the Warsaw University by the President of Poland. From July 1991 to June 2002 Director of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI); in 1992 appointed as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office to elaborate the settlement of the conflict in the Trans-Dniester region of Moldova. From 2000 member of the President’s National Security Council; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Polish government from January until October 2005. Author of numerous books, monographs and articles.
Petr Roubal
Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences since 2008. Lecturer at the Council on International Educational Exchange, Prague (course: “Rise and Fall of Central European Totalitarianism”). PhD in Comparative History form Central European University. M.Phil in Social Anthropology (University of Cambridge), MA in History (Central European University). Graduated from Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University. Author of books, articles, papers and reviews eg.: “Mass Gymnastic Performances under Communism: The Case of Czechoslovak Spartakiads”, “Prague Perspectives III. Jan Slavík (1885–1978): A Czech Historian of Revolutions” (with Lukáš Babka). Since 2010 member of the editorial board of Journal Dějiny, teorie, kritika.
Małgorzata Różańska-Mglej
Arts manager, researcher, translator. Head of the Literary Office and coordinator of international literary programs at the Villa Decius Association in Krakow and Head of the Centre of Artistic Residencies at the Institute of Culture Villa Decius. Coordinator of residencies for about 350 writers, translators and artists from over 35 countries. Co-founder and secretary of the international literary magazine RADAR (2010-2013), coordinator of the 5th Cracow Literary Days (2011) and curator of over 65 literary events. Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2014, of CEC Artslink in 2015 and of Fritt Ord Foundation in 2017. PhD student at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University.
Piotr Różański
Studied piano with Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron and Ewa Bukojemska at the Academy of Music in Krakow (Poland), where he is currently an assistant piano professor. He holds also a PhD title. Piotr performs regularly as a soloist and in various chamber ensembles. He performed in Poland, USA, Switzerland, Germany, France, Latvia. He played with Kaja Danczowska, Robert Kabara, Piotr Reichert, Marcin Zdunik. Together with Maria Slawek (violin) they recorded two CDs with violin sonatas by Schumann, Prokofiev and Weinberg. Piotr is a laureate of numerous piano and chamber competitions, including the 1st Prize at the 4th EPTA Piano Competition (Krakow 2003), the 2nd Prize at the Carl Czerny Piano Competition (Prague 2003), the 1st Prize at the 38th Polish National Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw 2006), and many other awards at solo and chamber competitions (Lodz 2010, Kiev 2010, just to name few).
Silvia Ruppeldtová
Slovak screenwriter, journalist, translator and archaeologist. She graduated from drama studies, dramaturgy, Latin-American studies, archaeology and Egyptology in Bratislava, Moscow, Madrid, Vienna and Havana. She’s an author of the screenplay of „Changes of Bratislava”. She translated Spanish, French, English and German films and literary texts such as for instance: „Aprende a dibujar” by Rosa Curto, „Lettre à D.” by André Gorza and „Them, Adventures with Extremists” by Jona Ronsona. Her articles, feuilletons, interviews and essays were published in numerous Slovak magazines and journals. As an archaeologist she took part in excavations in Spain, Portugal and Egypt. She is currently involved in “Visegrad Literary Residences” programme, which operator is the Villa Decius Association.
Urban Rusnak
Ambassador of Slovakia in Ukraine. Studied at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas and at the Institute of Social Sciences at Ankara University in Turkey. PhD in Public Administration and Political Sciences. 1992-1993 worked at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 1994-1998 Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Turkey, Ankara. 1999-2000 Director of the Slovak Institute for International Studies in Bratislava. Former Executive Director of the International Visegrad Fund. Former director of Department of Analyses and Policy Planning in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic.
Arne Ruth
As Editor-in-Chief of the liberal Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest morning daily, for sixteen years. He left his position in 1998, voicing sharp criticisms of the monopoly tendencies involving the parent company. As an essayist, he contributed to journals in Scandanavia, the German-speaking countries, France and the United States, focusing on aspects of European culture and politics. Among his most noted achievements as an author is a book on the arts under fascism: Staging Society: Aesthetics and Politics in the Third Reich (co-authored with Ingemar Karlsson). He is also on the board of the Swedish Helsinki Committe, the Swedish chapter of Reporters Sans Frontiers, and the Ship to Bosnia project for the establishment of a Cultural Centre for Reconciliation in Lipnica, Bosnia.
František Ružička
Currently, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic to Poland. Graduated from the Moscow Institute for International Relations and Charles University in Prague. In 1993-1996 First Secretary in the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Washington, USA. From 1996-1999 held posts in the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Director in the Office of the State Secretary, Director of the Department of International Economic Cooperation, Deputy Director General, and Director of the First Territorial Department. In 1999-2003 Deputy Chief of Mission in the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Prague. In 2003-2005 Director of Department for Internal Affairs and Institutions of the EU. From October 2004 to March 2005 Director General in charge of the European Affairs Section in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
