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Chief Analyst of UniBanka Slovakia, member of UniCredit Group. Graduated in economics from Bocconi University in Milano and in banking and finance from University of Economics in Bratislava. Until 2001 worked with MESA10  - an independent economic think-tank. In 2001 he joined UniBanka. He is an author and a co-author of several publications and studies in the field of banking sector and economic development. He is regularly quoted by local and international media on current economic issues. 

Bozhena Pelenska is an Artistic and Executive Director of the Jam Factory Art Center, responsible for programming, communication, strategic development, and partnership. 

She studied culture and philosophy in leading Ukrainian and international programs (Lviv National University, Ukrainian Catholic University, University of Ottawa), as well as management at the Institute of Management in Lviv and Visegrad Academy for Cultural Management. 

Bozhena has been working in the cultural sphere since 2006. Bozhena joined a fresh team in the Lviv City Council - the Department of Culture and Tourism. During this period, the team launched the first creative grant program in the city, initiated different festivals and cultural programs, and worked on the city designing project and the Lviv cycling infrastructure development program. 

Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary,  Doctor of Science of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She has edited fifteen volumes in English, seven volumes in Hungarian and two in Russian. Her works have appeared in 15 different languages. She has also been a guest professor at the universities of Toronto, Buenos Aires, Novi Sad, Stockholm and Frankfurt. Her books include a.o.: Women in Hungarian Politics 1945-1951 (Columbia University Press/East European Monographs New York, 2003) and  Geschlecht, Politik und Stalinismus in Ungarn. Eine Biographie von Júlia Rajk. Studien zur Geschichte Ungarns, Bd. 12. (Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, 2007). In 2005, she was awarded the Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary by the  President of the Hungarian Republic and the Bolyai Prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006. Presently, Prof. Petö is working on gendered memory of WWII and political extremism. Her recent book is co-edited with Ayse Gül Altinay: Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories. Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence,(Ashgate, 2016).

Heritage trainer, social anthropologist and cultural project manager. As a researcher, affiliated at the Jagiellonian University, she is mainly interested in relations between social memory, heritage and identity. She publishes articles about: museums, tourism, public space and subcultures. Her current research project deals with europeanisation of heritage. She is appointed professor assistant at the UNESCO chair for the Holocaust research. As a museum trainer, she promotes interpretive and democratic museology, specializing in storytelling for museums and support of brand management. She has co-authored a manual for interpretive museology as well as a number of museum exhibitions and projects, including 'art of the allotment' (Cracow Ethnographic Museum), Wadowice of Karol Wojtyla Malopolska and Malopolska Virtual Museums. For a decade she was a member of Exhibition Dynamics, a museum support team established by Malopolska Cultural Institute.