Experts

Luděk Niedermayer was born on 13 March 1966 in Brno, Czech Republic. In 1989 he graduated in Theoretical Cybernetics, Mathematical Informatics and Systems Theory at the Faculty of Science at the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Brno (now Masaryk University) and holds RNDr. degree.
In 1991 he joined the Czech National Bank where he worked for 17 years in area of financial markets and monetary policy. He served twice at the Bank Board (8 years in a position of Vice-governor). From 2008 to 2014 he was a Director of Consulting Department in Deloitte.
During his work he cooperated with IMF, IBRD or BIS on several projects and working groups, contributed to publications on reserve management, risk management and monetary policy. He publishes regularly economics articles in press and cooperates with the non-profit sector. He is a member of Advisory board of Central banking publications and leads training programs for central bankers.
In 2014 he was elected as a Member of European Parliament where he acts as a full member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and a substitute member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).
Luděk Niedermayer lives near Prague, is married and has three children.

Wojciech Przybylski leads the largest strategic foresight program on European policies in Central Europe. He is the editor of Visegrad Insight at the Res Publica Foundation in Warsaw. Previously, he served as the editor-in-chief of Res Publica Nowa and later of EUROZINE, a pan-European network of cultural magazines. He is a guest lecturer for the Foreign Service Institute for the U.S. Government, the Central European University Democracy Institute, and the Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest. He is a graduate of MISH at the University of Warsaw, a Europe’s Future Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, and a member of the advisory board for LSE IDEAS Ratiu Forum, the European Forum for New Ideas, and the Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum. He has published works including "Understanding Central Europe" (Routledge 2017) and "On the Edge. Poland" (Culturescapes 2019). Twitter: @wprzybylski

Philosopher, writer. Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Founder and head of the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (until 2011). Head of the Institut de la Recherche et de l’Innovation in Paris. Regular contributor to El País and Cadena SER radio. Author of “Apología del presente”, “Después de la pasión política”, “Del tiempo condensado”, and “Contra la indiferencia”.

PhD in 1996 from the Cairo University in Comparative Literature. She worked as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts at the Cairo University from 1997 until 2002. From 2004 – 2005 she was chosen as member of the jury of Litrix - German Literature Online for selecting German books for Arabic Translation. Since 2010 member of the board of the National Centre for Translation in Egypt. She has been working since 2002 as Head of Pro Helvetia Cairo (Swiss Arts Council), where she was responsible for designing concepts and strategies for exchange artistic works between Swiss and Arab culture. She wrote several articles in German and Arabic about cultural interaction and comparative literature. She has also done translations from German into Arabic. She has participated since 2011 in some independent cultural initiatives, such as independent culture coalition, the national group for cultural policies. Since 2011, she has been interested in the reform of the cultural sector in Egypt and has participated in several events addressing this topic. Now, her focus is on organizing projects related to the own cultural heritage in its relation to the contemporary artistic expressions.