About us

Council and Board

Andrzej Rychard

Chair

Sociologist. Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Members

Rafał Dutkiewicz

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

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: Wikimedia Commons, Adrian Grycuk

Marcin Matczak

Lawyer. Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw of the University of Warsaw. Partner at Domański Zakrzewski Palinka law firm

photo: Wikimedia Commons, 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

Olga Tokarczuk

Writer. Nobel Prize winner

photo: Wikimedia Commons, Martin Kraft

Edwin Bendyk

President, journalist

Columnist of the Polityka weekly magazine, founder of the Collegium Civitas Centre for Future Studies, professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences Graduate School for Social Research.

Members

Mikołaj Cześnik

sociologist, political scientist

Director of the Institute of Social Sciences, SWPS University.

Szymon Gutkowski

marketing strategist

Managing Director of DDB Warsaw.

Anna Materska-Sosnowska

political scientist

Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw.