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.

Dr Natasza Styczyńska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). Her academic interests include party politics, populism, Euroscepticism and European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She leads JU team in H2020 REGROUP Rebuilding Governance and Resilience out of the Pandemic research project and is a director of studies of Una Europa Joint BA in European Studies at Jagiellonian.

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.