Is an artist with a wide range of talents. As an actor he is known for «Les sièges de l‘Alcazar» (1989), «Le système Zsigmondy» (2000) and «Le prestige de la mort» (2006). He played in 8 films of Luc Moullet. Apart from film acting he showed up at various theatres in France and Europe, both as actor and dancer. Furthermore he produced radio features and works as director, author and – under the name of “Oliver Night” – also as songwriter, singer, guitarist and producer. As a musician he goes his own way without caring too much about fashions and success. From the very beginning of his musical work, he shares his “French Indie Rock” with his audience in a logic of exchange rather than in a commercial one. From 2005 till 2015, as musician, he worked in studio, or shared the stage for shows or performances during tours in France, Europe or the USA with other musicians from several nations.
Experts
Olivier Maltinti
Anton Marcinčin
Studied at the CERGE-EI Prague, completed his dissertation at the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam and CEP of the London School of Economics and Political Science, holds also PhD degree at the Charles University in Prague. The World Bank country economist for Slovakia and Slovenia, 1990-2001 editor of Economic Policy in Slovakia. He is also an editor of finances magazine – the Czech Journal of Economics and Finance. During his work at the Czech Academy of Science, MESA10, Centre for Economic Development and Slovak Foreign Policy Association, contributed to several books and published many articles on corporate governance, labour market and public finance. Lecturer at the Charles University in Prague, the Trnava University and at the Comenius University in Bratislava.
Piotr Marecki
Expert in cultural studies, publisher (Ha!art publishing house), editor, and lecturer at the Chair of Contemporary Culture of the Faculty of Culture at the Jagiellonian University, the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School (PWSFTviT) in Łódź and the Kraków School of Screenplay. His interests include Polish literature after 1989, independent culture, new media literature, film adaptations, and screenwriting. He recently edited the book “Hiperteksty literackie. Literatura nowych mediów” (“Literary Hypertexts. New Media Literature”, Kraków 2011), and published the monograph “Czycz i filmowcy, czyli przyliteracki status kina polskiego” (“Czycz and Filmmakers: the Relationship between Polish Cinema and Literature”, Kraków 2012).
Jiří Marek
Studies in history and political sciences at the Charles University in Prague, major in political
science-international relations. Focused on the problems of civil-military relations and security studies. Scholarship at University of Santiago de Compostela. Worked in Czech NATO Summit Task Force and in the preparations of Prague NATO Summit 2002. At the dawn of the Iraqi crisis started to work as Secretary to the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic.
Petr Mareš
Petr Mareš is the Executive Director of the Visegrad Fund. PhD in Czechoslovak and World History, he was Director of the Institute of International Politics (1993-1995) and Chair of the Department of American Studies (1995-1998) of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University (Prague). He also held the position of Deputy Prime Minister (2002-2004) of the Government of Czech Republic and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Minister of Defense (2004-2006). Between 2006 and 2010 he was Ambassador to the Kingdom of Netherlands, then Ambassador of the Special Envoy for Eastern Partnership (2010-2015) and Consul General in Istanbul, Turkey (2015-2019).
Jerzy Margański
Ambassador of Poland to Germany since 2013. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow; Doctor of Humanities, Professor at Gustav-Sieerth-Akademie, Germany. Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990. Second Secretary, subsequently First Secretary and Counsellor of the Polish Embassy in Bonn (1990-1995). Vice-Director, subsequently Director of Department of Europe-West (1995-1997). Minister Plenipotentiary at the Representation of the Polish Embassy in Berlin (1997-1999). Director of the Secretariat of the Minister (1999-2001). In the years 2001-2005 Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Switzerland. Ambassador of Poland to Austria (2008-2013).
Omar Marques
Omar Marques is a Portuguese freelance photojournalist from the northwest of Portugal. Photographing wild twin pandas in the Austrian Alps or the biggest and most evil ice maze in the world located next to the Polish Himalayas, were some of the most dangerous assignments he ever faced. Omar works as a freelance photojournalist for several news agencies on editorial and commercial assignments and has his own studio in the Polish Siberia, KRAKOW. Besides providing news coverage around Central and Eastern Europe and the Wild Balkans, he works on personal long term projects. Since 2015, he has been working on a project regarding the refugee crisis in Europe. Some of Omar pictures have been published in Times, The New York Times, CNBC, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Paris Match, Le Point, Newsweek Poland, Peninsula Qatar, La Croix among others.
Petr Maryška
Second Secretary, Embassy of the Czech Republic in Poland, in charge of Diplomatic Protocol.
Tamás Mérei
Studied under Csaba Onczay, Sándor Devich and Ferenc Rados in Hungary, then at Indiana university in the U.S. and also as a Fulbright scholar at Yale University and under Aldo Parison at the Julliard School in New Yorku. Among other prizes, Tamás Mérei is the youngest winner of the prestigeous Popper Cello Competition, international competition of the Hungarian Public Radio, and the winner of the main prize at the Piatigorsky Festival in Los Angeles. As a soloist, he has performed in Europe, USA, Israel and Japan. As a world premiere, he recorded Paganini’s 24 Caprices for Hungaroton Classic. He teaches at Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest.
Grigorij Mesežnikov
President of the Institute for Public Affairs (IVO), Bratislava, 1997-1999 Program Director (Building of Democratic Institutions Program) of IVO. 1993-1997 Researcher of the Institute of Political Science, Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava. 1983-1993 Assistant of Comenius University, Faculty of Art - Faculty of Education, Bratislava. Member of Alliance for Transparency and Fight against Corruption(Advisory Body of Transparency International Slovakia). Chairman of Council of the Central European Institute for Economic and Social Reforms - INEKO, Bratislava.
