Since 2006 Undersecretary of State at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. She is dealing with issues connected with the Polish-Jewish relations. She graduated from the Law Department and did post-graduate journalistic studies at Warsaw University. She worked as a journalist and editor-in-chief of the “Dziennik Polski” daily in Detroit. She also was a member of the Dialogue group. In 2001 she was nominated for the director for the development of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. She is a member of the „Otwarta Rzeczpospolita” Association, of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute and of the Association of Polish Journalists. Author of a book about Pope John Paul II A Man Among Us, she published in Kultura and Tygodnik Powszechny.
Experts
Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka
Rastislav Káčer
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic
Rastislav Káčer was appointed Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic on 2022 -2023, after some thirty years of experience in the Slovak Foreign Service.
As a career diplomat, Rastislav Káčer served as Slovak Ambassador of Slovakia to the Czech Republic since 2020. He served before as the Slovak Ambassador to the Hungary (2013 - 2018) and to the United States of America (2003 - 2008).
Between 1994 and 1998 served at NATO Headquarters in Brussels and on his return from Brussels became director of Analysis and Planning Department and later the Director General for Security Policy and Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2001, he became the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defense responsible for the negotiation and accession process of Slovakia to NATO.
He is widely recognized as an expert on U.S. domestic and foreign policy, transatlantic relations, defense and security issues.
Aleksander Kaczorowski
Editor-in-chief of Aspen Review Central Europe, a quarterly journal published by Aspen Institute Prague. Previously, he was deputy editor-in-chief of Newsweek Polska and FORUM and chief editor of the Op-ed section of Gazeta Wyborcza. He was also responsible for the Polish edition of Gazeta Środkowoeuropejska, a monthly supplement to Gazeta Wyborcza, published in conjunction with daily newspapers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. He is an author of “Praski elementarz” (“A Prague Primer” in 2001, new edition 2012), a biography of Bohumil Hrabal “Gra w życie” (“The Game of Life”, 2004), “Europa z płaskostopiem” (“Flatfooted Europe”, 2006), “Praskie łowy” (“A Hunt in Prague”, 2007) and “Ballada o kapciach” (“A Ballad of Slippers”, 2012). He also translated works by Bohumil Hrabal, Josef Škvorecký, Egon Bondy and Helga Weiss.
Marta Kahancova
Marta Kahancova (1977) studied international economic relations and economic diplomacy at the University of Economics in Bratislava. Later she obtained her MA in Political Science after completing her studies at the Central European University in Budapest in 2002. Marta joined the ASSR in 2002 as a pre-dissertation student and in 2003 as a PhD student, working on a thesis titled Western Multinationals and the European Diversity: Shaping the Convergence of Employment Practices and Industrial Relations. The project explains why there are striking differences in employment practices across several subsidiaries of a Dutch multinational firm located in Western and Eastern Europe, whereas these differences do not necessarily mean East-West stereotypes. From January to December 2006 Marta was a visiting PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. She taught Employment Relations and Organizational Change at the University of Amsterdam’s International School for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Janusz Kahl
Graduated from Copenhagen Business School with additional courses in strategy and foreign trade. Since 1996 he has been Danish honorary consul in Krakow and since 2006 Swedish honorary consul in Krakow for Malopolska, Slesien, Podkarpacie and Swietokrzyskie regions. For over 15 years he has been supporting Danish-Polish business cooperation. He has been Consultant for Copenhagen County and Funen County in interregional cooperation with Malopolska Region since 1992. He is CEO in NordicHouse, a consultancy company for Nordic companies in Poland which was established in 2001 in Krakow. He is an owner and co-owner of private companies – ISS building company and ScanRehab.
Andrzej Kamler
Andrzej Kapiszewski
Professor of sociology and political science at the Jagiellonian University, lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy at Warsaw. Former visiting professor at Stanford University and many other foreign universities. Between 1991-1997 in diplomatic service - the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in the Persian Gulf countries. Author of numerous academic books and articles. Expert in ethnic and national issues, especially in East-West relations and Middle East affairs. He died in Krakow in 2007.
Linda Kapustová Helbichová
The Executive Director of the Visegrad Fund Linda Kapustová Helbichová (Slovakia) has experience from the Ministries of Culture and Foreign and European Affairs and from IVF. She served as a Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Bern. She has PhD. from Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.
Felix Kaputu
PhD in Comparative Literatures from the Université de Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and recipient of numerous scholarships incl. US Fulbright Scholarship in Religion and Pluralism at the University of California Santa Barbara and a Japanese Government Scholarship at the Nanzan University. He worked for different academic institutions in the United States of America, Japan and in Belgium contributing to African Studies, African Politics, Literature (Mythology), Gender, Religion, Diaspora, Art, Community, Development and Pedagogy. His main axes of expertise have grown within comparative structures that put together African experiences and studies, on the one hand, and that of other continents, especially Asian, European and American, on the other, for global comparative presentations and understanding of socio-political, religious, literary and artistic productions.
Éva Karádi
Editor in chief of Magyar Lettre Internationale, Hungarian edition of the European cultural quarterly since 1995, one of editors since 1991, chair of the Hungarian National Committee of the European Cultural Foundation since 1998, one of the coordinators of the cooperation of the leading daily newspapers of the Visegrad countries in editing a common Central European Supplement from 1994 on. In these fields organized many European and regional events, like: Revolutions and Restaurations (1992), Intellectuals between Morals and Politics (1996), Samizdat (2000) and Joining the Club: The Central-European countries in the period of the referenda (2003) etc. Éva Karádi has a PhD in Philosophy and teaches philosophy since 1969 at the Eotvos University Budapest.
