2013

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.

Holds MA degree in Political Sciences and in European Studies, also studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from 2006 she works at Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University. Between 2009-2011 she has been researcher in the RECON (Reconstituting Democracy in Europe) Integrated Project supported by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme. Her academic interests include transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe, party politics and euroscepticism in the CEE region, as well as Austro-Hungarian heritage in the Central and Southern Europe.

Currently working at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków and is at present the visiting researcher at the Centre for European Studies, Lund University, Sweden. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Jagiellonian University, and her doctoral thesis (2007) concerned the issues of relations between Poland and Israel after World War II. Her academic interests include processes of collective identity formation in the context of EU enlargement, the European Union as an actor in international relations, contemporary Polish foreign policy.