Council and Board

The Foundation is governed by the Governing Council that convenes once a year to review the Foundation's strategy. The first members of the Council were invited 20 years ago by Founder George Soros. Since then, the Council has changed several times. The Governing Council elects the Foundation Board and the Board's Chair for two year renewable terms. Both Council and Board are voluntary bo

The Council

CHAIR

Marcin Król
Dean of the Faculty of Applied Social Scinces and Social Reintegration, University of Warsaw

MEMBERS

Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
economist, Chairman of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister

Bogdan Borusewicz
historian, Marshal of the Senate

Agnieszka Holland
director, screenwriter, President of Polish Film Academy

Olga Krzyżanowska, MD
physician

Helena Łuczywo
editor, co-founder of Agora SA

Krzysztof Michalski
Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna

Andrzej Olechowski
Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bank Handlowy S.A.

Zbigniew Pełczyński
Pambroke College, University of Oxford

Andrzej Rapaczyński
School of Law, Columbia University

Hanna Suchocka
Ambassador of Poland to the Holy See
(on leave)

Henryk Woźniakowski
President of Znak Publishers


The Board

PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD

Aleksander Smolar
political scientist

MEMBERS

Klaus Bachmann
historian, political scientist, Institute of Plotical Science,
Warsaw School of Social Psychology

Nathalie Bolgert
Program Director of Trust for Civil Society in CEE for Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia

Szymon Gutkowski
Managing Director and co-owner of DBB advertising company

Irena Herbst
economist, Warsaw School of Economics

Jacek Kochanowicz
historian of economy, University of Warsaw

Radosław Markowski
sociologist, Institute of Political Studies
Polish Academy of Sciences

Andrzej Ziabicki
chemist, Polish Academy of Sciences



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