About us

Council and Board

Mikołaj Cześnik

Chariman of the Council

Sociologist, political scientist. Professor at SWPS University, director of the SWPS Institute of Social Sciences. Member of the research team of the Polish General Election Study

Rafał Dutkiewicz

Entrepreneur. President of Employers of Poland. In 2002-14 Mayor of Wroclaw

Anna Giza

Sociologist. Vice-Rector of the University of Warsaw from 2012 to 2019, and Dean of the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw from 2020 to 2024

Aleksandra Hnatiuk

Ukrainianist, writer, translator. Associate Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the Study of Eastern Europe, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw

Photo: Mykola Swarnyk

Hanna Machińska

Lawyer. Academic teacher at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. In 1991- 2017 Director of the Council of Europe Office, in 2017-23 Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights

photo: Adrian Grycuk

Joanna Mytkowska

Art critic and historian. Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

photo: Marta Ejsmont

Krzysztof Obłój

Economist, management theorist. Head of the Department of Business Strategy at the Kozminski University in Warsaw

photo: M. Opara

Jan Olbrycht

Sociologist. Member of the European Parliament for the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th terms

Edwin Bendyk

President

sociologist, columnist of the Polityka weekly magazine

Szymon Gutkowski

marketing strategist, managing Director of DDB Warsaw

Krzysztof Izdebski

advocacy, development and new technology specialist

Ewa Kulik-Bielińska

Americanist, translator, editor, social activist, NGO manager

photo: Anna Liminowicz

Anna Materska-Sosnowska

political scientist, professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw

Sylwia Sobiepan

director of grant programs