A journalist, regularly contributes to the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. In the 80ties editor and journalist of opposition press and active in “Solidarność” movement. In the 90ties war correspondent from Bosnia. Founding editor of the Polish-Jewish publication Midrasz.
Experts - journalism
Konstanty Gebert
Paul Gillespie
Dr Paul Gillespie is Foreign Policy Editor and a duty editor of The Irish Times. He works in the editor's office of the newspaper as an editorial writer and columnist on international affairs. He has special expertise and interest in European politics and political identities, British-Irish relations, transatlantic relations, Middle East affairs and East Asian affairs. He lectures at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin and is a member of the advisory council of the European Policy Centre, Brussels. He is the author of many articles and book chapters and edited Blair's Britain, England's Europe, Dublin: Institute of European, 2000.
Hilde Elisabeth Haaland
Representative of the Secretariat of the Nordic Council, Department of Documentation. Graduated in History, literature and Latin studies from the University of Oslo. Historian of medieval history from the University of Oslo 1998. Specialist on Icelandic Sagas and Norse religion and culture. Author of several articles on Norwegian and Icelandic medieval history. Radio journalist and theatre and literature critics 1996-2000. Archivist at The National Archives of Norway 1998-2000. Senior archivist and editor at the Nordic Council Secretariat from 2000.
Helga Hirsch
Studied German Philology and Political Science at the Free University in Berlin. From 1989 to 1995, worked as a correspondent for the German weekly Die Zeit in Warsaw and since 1996 has been active as a freelance journalist for various newspapers, television and radio broadcasters. Author of books: Zemsta ofiar (Victims' revenge) and Nie mam keine buty(I have keine shoes).
Leszek Jazdzewski
Leszek Jażdżewski is a graduate of the University of Oxford, founder and editor-in-chief of Liberté!, a liberal journal and foundation based in Poland.
Liberté! organises the annual Freedom Games, one of the biggest intellectual forums in Central Europe.
Leszek was a Policy Fellow at the School of Transnational Government at the EUI and a non-resident fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna where his work focused on the ways of countering the rise of national populism in Europe.
He was selected as a European Young Leader by the Friends of Europe (class 2022). He is a co-host of the Liberal Europe podcast.
Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka
Since 2006 Undersecretary of State at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. She is dealing with issues connected with the Polish-Jewish relations. She graduated from the Law Department and did post-graduate journalistic studies at Warsaw University. She worked as a journalist and editor-in-chief of the “Dziennik Polski” daily in Detroit. She also was a member of the Dialogue group. In 2001 she was nominated for the director for the development of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. She is a member of the „Otwarta Rzeczpospolita” Association, of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute and of the Association of Polish Journalists. Author of a book about Pope John Paul II A Man Among Us, she published in Kultura and Tygodnik Powszechny.
Éva Karádi
Editor in chief of Magyar Lettre Internationale, Hungarian edition of the European cultural quarterly since 1995, one of editors since 1991, chair of the Hungarian National Committee of the European Cultural Foundation since 1998, one of the coordinators of the cooperation of the leading daily newspapers of the Visegrad countries in editing a common Central European Supplement from 1994 on. In these fields organized many European and regional events, like: Revolutions and Restaurations (1992), Intellectuals between Morals and Politics (1996), Samizdat (2000) and Joining the Club: The Central-European countries in the period of the referenda (2003) etc. Éva Karádi has a PhD in Philosophy and teaches philosophy since 1969 at the Eotvos University Budapest.
Michał Karniewicz
Journalist from Grodno, former press journalist (Pahonia, Briża Informacji) and radio journalist (Racja) – all closed down. In 2005 he was working for the Polish radio TOK FM.
Michał Komar
Polish writer, screenwriter, playwright and journalist.
Agnieszka Kosowicz
Graduated from the Warsaw University, Faculty of Journalism. Since 1999 UNHCR External Relations Officer in Warsaw. Responsible for the educational activities of the Office, UNHCR publications in Poland, and liaisons with Polish non-governmental organisations. Former journalist, she specialises in international journalism. She has published her reports from Iraq, Albania and Kosovo in Życie and Sztandardailies. Co-author of the Łąka Popiołów (Meadow of Ashes) photo exhibition about war and conflict in Kosovo.
