2015

Paweł Filipek, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences with specialization in Public International Law. Previously worked at the Chair of Public International Law (1997-2007) and coordinated the Jagiellonian University Human Rights Centre (2003-2007) and the Human Rights Clinic (2003-2006). Scholarship holder of the Max-Planck Society (2002-2003). Earlier, Ph.D.

PhD in law (Jagiellonian University), with a specialty in human rights and refugee law. Co-founder and president of the Halina Nieć Legal Aid Center, a non-governmental organization devoted to the protection of human rights through free legal aid and UNHCR’s implementing partner. Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Fellow, member of the Commission of Experts on Migrants to the Ombudsman’s Office.

Born in Bucharest, he studied Art History at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where he taught from 1980 to 1982. Between 1991 and 1997 he was Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bucharest. After the fall of the communist regime he was appointed Minister of Culture (1989-1991) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997-1999).