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A French born journalist, she studied Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes politiques in Paris and read history at Cambridge University (UK). In 1990 she moved to Hungary where she became a permanent correspondent until 2003 for the French public radio, dailies La Croix & Libération and weekly l’Express. From Budapest she also covered other countries in the region. She is the author of “Sarajevo, my love” – a biography of General Divjak, one of the commanders of the Bosnian army. Today she still covers Hungary and shares her time between Paris and Budapest.

Architecturalcriticand curator, graduated from the department of Architectureat Warsaw University of Technologyin 2006. From 2011 onwards he has workedwith the Foundation forArchitectureCenterin Warsaw.He is the curatorof exhibitions andart projectsrelated to architecture, inter alia  Hotel Polonia;“TheAfterlifeof Buildings” award the Golden Lionfor the bestnationalexhibition on theXIBiennale, Venice (with Jarosław Trybuś, 2008); Open: Poland.

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.