The Stefan Batory Foundation

About the Foundation

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 bodies.

The Council

CHAIR

Prof. Marcin Król
social scientist, University of Warsaw
Editor-in-Chief of „Res Publica Nowa”

MEMBERS

Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
economist, President of the Bank Pekao SA, former Prime Minister

Bogdan Borusewicz
historian, Marshal of the Senate

Wojciech Fibak
businessman

Prof. Leszek Kołakowski
philosopher, Oxford University, UK

Olga Krzyżanowska, MD
physician

Prof. Krzysztof Michalski
philosopher
Director of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna

Andrzej Olechowski
economist, Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Citi Handlowy Bank S.A.
former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Prof. Zbigniew Pełczyński
political scientist, Oxford University, UK

Bp Prof. Tadeusz Pieronek
Polish Bishops Conference

Prof. Andrzej Rapaczyński
lawyer, Columbia University Law School, USA

Prof. Hanna Suchocka
lawyer, former Prime Minister, Ambassador of Poland to the Holy See
(on leave)

Prof. Stanisław Wellisz
economist, Columbia University, USA

The Board

PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD

Aleksander Smolar
political scientist

MEMBERS

Klaus Bachmann
political scientist, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities

Nathalie Bolgert
manager of Community Assistance Fund at Polish-American Enterprise Fund

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

Irena Herbst
economist, Warsaw School of Economics

Prof. Jacek Kochanowicz
economist, University of Warsaw

Prof. Andrzej Rychard
sociologist, Polish Academy of Sciences

Prof. Andrzej Ziabicki
chemist, Polish Academy of Sciences