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Piotr Naimski

Piotr Naimski

Polish politician, former Secretary of State at the Ministry of Economy. PhD degree in sciences at Warsaw University. From 1999 to October 2001 Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek’s advisor on national security. Member of the Team for the Diversification of Natural Gas Supplies to Poland. Coordinated the activities leading to the signing of the agreement on natural gas supplies from Norway. In 2000–2001 member of the Supervisory Board of the Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG). Professor and, since 2003, Dean of the Faculty of Political Studies at the National-Louis University in Nowy Sącz, Poland.

  

Ludĕk Niedermayer

Ludĕk Niedermayer

Luděk Niedermayer was born on 13 March 1966 in Brno, Czech Republic. In 1989 he graduated in Theoretical Cybernetics, Mathematical Informatics and Systems Theory at the Faculty of Science at the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Brno (now Masaryk University) and holds RNDr. degree.
In 1991 he joined the Czech National Bank where he worked for 17 years in area of financial markets and monetary policy. He served twice at the Bank Board (8 years in a position of Vice-governor). From 2008 to 2014 he was a Director of Consulting Department in Deloitte.
During his work he cooperated with IMF, IBRD or BIS on several projects and working groups, contributed to publications on reserve management, risk management and monetary policy. He publishes regularly economics articles in press and cooperates with the non-profit sector. He is a member of Advisory board of Central banking publications and leads training programs for central bankers.
In 2014 he was elected as a Member of European Parliament where he acts as a full member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and a substitute member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).
Luděk Niedermayer lives near Prague, is married and has three children.

Wojciech Przybylski

Wojciech Przybylski leads the largest strategic foresight program on European policies in Central Europe. He is the editor of Visegrad Insight at the Res Publica Foundation in Warsaw. Previously, he served as the editor-in-chief of Res Publica Nowa and later of EUROZINE, a pan-European network of cultural magazines. He is a guest lecturer for the Foreign Service Institute for the U.S. Government, the Central European University Democracy Institute, and the Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest. He is a graduate of MISH at the University of Warsaw, a Europe’s Future Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, and a member of the advisory board for LSE IDEAS Ratiu Forum, the European Forum for New Ideas, and the Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum. He has published works including "Understanding Central Europe" (Routledge 2017) and "On the Edge. Poland" (Culturescapes 2019). Twitter: @wprzybylski

Jan Sechter

Jan Sechter

Current Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Poland. Mr. Sechter graduated in 1992 from Faculty of Economics, at the University of Agriculture, Prague. Founder of „Lidové noviny” newspaper. In the nineties he worked in the Department for Culture and Czechs Abroad (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), in 2000 was a head of unit cross-sectional agenda, department of Central Europe Countries, MFA. In the years 2000/2001 – 2007 he was a member of many institutions: Board of Czech-German Future Fund, Directors Board of Fund for victims of Holocaust etc. In 2007-2008 was on duty in Executive Secretary of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.

Janusz Sepioł

Janusz Sepioł

Since 2007 a Senator of the 7th cadence. Former Marshall of the Malopolska Region. Member of associations such as: Polish Townplanners Association, Polish Architects Assiociation, the Social Committee of Krakow Monuments Rehabilitation. Chairman of the Voivodship Uran-Architectural Committee. Graduated at Krakow Technical Academy (Faculty of Architecture). Author of a number of publications in Polish as well as in English and German, concerning architecture and urban studies. Entitled for national architectural designing (1989) and town planning designing (1990).

Stanislav Shushkevich

Stanislav Shushkevich

Politician, physicist. Head of the Belarusian Parliament of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarus (1991–1994). On 8th December 1991, together with the Presidents of Russia (Boris Yeltsin) and Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk), signed the Declaration dissolving the Soviet Union. He supported free market reforms and played a key role in the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Before his Presidency he was a prominent Belarusian Scientist, a corresponding Member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences; Doctor and Professor in Physics and Mathematics, author of award–winning textbooks (over 150 articles and 70 inventions), and recipient of numerous state awards. Chairman of the political party Gramada running for the 2006 presidential elections. In June 2006 he was awarded the Jan Nowak Jeziorański Award. 

Bogusław Sonik

Bogusław Sonik

Since 2005 Member of the Lower house of the Parliament of Poland. From 2004 till 2014 Member of the  European Parliament, chairman of Stowarzyszenie Maj77 and Villa Decius Association. Former director of the Polish Institute in Paris and minister plenipotentiary at the embassy of the Republic of Poland in France (1990–1996) and director of “Kraków 2000 – European City of Culture” Festival (1996–2002). Director of the Department of Promotion at the Krakow Municipal Office (2003–2004). Awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1993) and the Order of Merit for achievements in the field of Polish Culture (1999). In the European Parliament, he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Subcommittee on Human Rights, the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and responsible for negotiations on the REACH directive. His most significant success was the report concerning the influence of extraction of shale gas on environment which gave the “green light” to the extraction of shale gas in Europe.

Tadeusz Syryjczyk

Tadeusz Syryjczyk

He holds PhD in Informatics from the Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automatisation Faculty. In 1989 - 1990 he served as the Minister of Industry. Since 1991 he has been a professional politician - a deputy to the Polish Parliament (Sejm); in 1997-1998 he was the Chairman of the Freedom Union's Parliamentary Club. In 1992-1993 he was the Chief of the Prime Minister's team of advisors with the cabinet rank of under-secretary of state.  

Attila Szalai

Attila Szalai

A journalist,literary translator and diplomat. After making his first trip to Poland by hitchhiking in 1968, he joined the Association of Polish-Hungarian Friendship, signing up in a course at the Centre of Polish Culture in Budapest, where he was a frequent visitor, and after two years of education he passed the state examination through the Polish language.In Poland, where he lived with his polish wife for 14 years (1976-1990) as both a writer and literary translator, he has worked mainly with titles such as Literatura na Świecie, Kontrasty and Słowo. In 1993 he joined the diplomatic service and several years worked as counsellor for culture and press of the Hungarian Embassy in Warsaw. In 2001-2005 he was director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw. After returning to Budapest to work with the Department of Communications and Public Diplomacy of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry. For his services received the Knight's Cross of the Polish Republic (2005). Currently counsellor for cultural and press affairs of the Embassy of Hungary in Warsaw.

Krzysztof Szczerski

From January to September 2007 Undersecretary of State in Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From September 2007 to January 2008 Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Committee for European Integration.

Graduate from the Jagiellonian University. Holder of doctoral degree in political sciences. Author of many publication on european integration and public administration.  Deputy Director at the Institute of Political Science and Political Relations at the Jagiellonian  University.

  

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