Immigrant from Iran living in Poland.
Experts
Toumas Tahbaz
Péter Talás
Holds PhD in political sciences, Head of Center for Strategic and Defense Studies, Budapest. From 1993 commentator on international security in several Hungarian newspapers. 1993-1995 correspondent of Gazeta Wyborcza, 1993-1995 editor of “Beszélő” (Hungarian political weekly). 1994-2001 editor and reporter of Hungarian Television.
Borys Tarasyuk
Ukrainian diplomat and politician, twice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in five governments under two Presidents (1998-2000, 2005-2007), Vice-President of the EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly. Founder and Director (since 2001) of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation and Chairman of the Board of the magazine "Euroatlantic". Leader of the political party “People's Movement of Ukraine” (2003-2012), Deputy Head of All-Ukraine Union “Bat'kivschyna” party (since 2013). Member of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine (since 2002 till now), Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs (since 2014). Chair of Inter-factional Group “Ukraine in NATO”. Head of the Parliamentary Committee for European Integration (2002-2005, 2006 and 2007-2012). Since 1975 he served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mission at the UN (1981-1986), member of Delegation to UN Security Council (1984-1985), Ambassador of Ukraine to the Benelux countries (1995-1998), Head of the Mission of Ukraine to NATO (1997-1998). Has the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (since 1992).
Ewa Malgorzata Tatar
Born in 1981, Kielce, Poland, lives and works in Krakow and Gdnask. An Art historian who works as a curator, art critic, editor. Interested in institutional critique (cycles of the artist-in-residence project in National Museum in Krakow, 2005-7, 2011) and curating as a method of art history (short sotry of Ładnie Group, 2008 - book; On the vulcano. Krzysztof Niemczyk, 2010, and Wyspa. Now is now,2012 - exhibitions). Cooperates as a curator with Wyspa Art Institute in Gdnask and National Museum in Krakow (where she is interested in building the program based on the legacy and its redefinition and exploration of the educational aspects of the permanent collection and social duties of the institution). Editor of Visual line book series in Korporacja Ha!art editing house. Currently working on her Phd on the beginnings of femininst art in Poland in 1970's at Jagiellonian UNiversity. Studied psychoanalysis at SUNY at Buffalo.
Gabriela Tomankova
Jan Tomášek
Deputy Head of Mission of the Czech Republic to Poland since August 2006. At the MFA since 1991. Two previous postings - Slovakia (1993-98) and Russia (1999-2004). Speaks English, French, Russian and Polish.
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
PhD, since 1997 professor in East and Central European Studies and since 2004 Director for the Centre for European Studies, Lund University, Sweden. She specialises in cultural studies and contemporary history focusing on studies of identities, symbols, collective memory and nationalism. She has published 12 edited or single authored books and many articles and book chapters on these topics. She is the editor in chief of Slavica Lundensia and on the advisory board of the journals Baltic Worlds and Bialoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne. Since 2012 she leads an international research network in Memory Studies, financed by EU/COST. Her recent book on Central and Eastern Europe culture is the edited volume: ”Cultural Transformations after Communism: Central and Eastern Europe in Focus” 2011.
Soňa Trebatická
Project controller at the International Visegrad Fund.
Viktor Trebický
Project co-ordinator in Institute for Environmental Policy, Prague, Czech Republic. Chairman of the board of the Iris p.b.o (Czech NGO operating in the field of ecological education), co- founder of the Robinson (Czech NGO). Since 2001 Member of the National Steering Committe of the project "Supporting Local Agenda 21 Initiatives in the Czech Republic". Areas of interest: know-how of sustainable development (SD) and ecological aspects of sustainable development, as well as application of theoretical principles of SD in practice.
Jan Truszczyński
Graduated from Foreign Trade Department at the Central School of Planning and Statistics, and completed post-graduate German and International Law Studies. Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972. 1978-1982 the Second Secretary at the Polish Embassy in the Hague, 1988-1989 Counsellor at the Polish Embassy in Brussels,1989-1993 Counsellor-Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Mission to the European Communities in Brussels,1996-2001 Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels. In 2001 Under Secretary of State at Chancellery of President of Poland, responsible for European integration matters. In 2005 State Secretary in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since October 2005 Director of the Polish-German Cooperation Foundation (Stiftung für Deutsch-Polnische Zusammenarbeit).
