Currently, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic to Poland. Graduated from the Moscow Institute for International Relations and Charles University in Prague. In 1993-1996 First Secretary in the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Washington, USA. From 1996-1999 held posts in the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Director in the Office of the State Secretary, Director of the Department of International Economic Cooperation, Deputy Director General, and Director of the First Territorial Department. In 1999-2003 Deputy Chief of Mission in the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Prague. In 2003-2005 Director of Department for Internal Affairs and Institutions of the EU. From October 2004 to March 2005 Director General in charge of the European Affairs Section in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Experts
František Ružička
Katarzyna Šalamun - Biedrzycka
Translator of the Polish literature into Slovenian and Slovenian literature into Polish.
Andrea Schmidt
Graduate of Russian Philology and History at the University of Pécs (1993). 1991-1996 pursued Polish Philology Studies in the Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest. In 1994 obtained MA in Central European Studies and Modern History at the Central European University in Budapest, in 1999 - MA in economics at the Budapest Business School, the College of Finance and Accountancy. Recently student of a doctoral School at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Arts and Political Sciences. 1994-1998 Assistant Lecturer at the University of Miskolc, Department of Modern History. 1999-2001 Program coordinator at the University of Pécs, Institute of European Studies. Since 2003 Lecturer at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Arts, Department of Political Studies. Author of many articles, participant of several joint scientific projects mainly in the field of financial factors of governance, the transitional period of the Central European countries – especially Hungary and Poland.
Agata Stafiej - Bartosik
Vice-President of the Social Communication Foundation. Founder and the President of the European Institute of Social Marketing. Cofounder of SMart - Social Marketing Artisans in Belgrade. 2004-2005 manager of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Danone group. Professional Adviser specialized in creating corporate images, social marketing and socially responsible advertising. Fields of interests: Civic Participation, Socially Responsible Advertising.
Andrzej Styliński
A long-time correspondent for the Associated Press, the world’s largest and oldest news agency, and the head of the AP’s operations in Poland. He has reported on the fall of communism in the Eastern Europe and various aspects of the region’s political, economic and social transition after 1989. In February 2004, following 20 years with the AP, moved to work as television news editor for TVN24, Poland’s first all-news television. In April 2005, joined Siemens Sp. z o. o., the global concern’s Polish regional company, as the PR director and press spokesman.
Paweł Świderski
Honorary Consul of the Republic of Brazil in Krakow. Graduated in Oriental Philology from the Jagiellonian University, and in European Studies from the Pułtusk School of Humanities. PhD in Management. His work experience include supervising implementation of development plans, diplomatic representation of Poland, creation of bilateral economic cooperation at the level of countries and regions, economic analyses, negotiating international agreements in the field of economic cooperation and supervising execution of international commercial and industrial cooperation agreements. Lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in the field of strategy of development and human resources; Chairman of the Foundation for the Jagiellonian University; consultant in local government.
Toumas Tahbaz
Immigrant from Iran living in Poland.
Jan Truszczyński
Graduated from Foreign Trade Department at the Central School of Planning and Statistics, and completed post-graduate German and International Law Studies. Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972. 1978-1982 the Second Secretary at the Polish Embassy in the Hague, 1988-1989 Counsellor at the Polish Embassy in Brussels,1989-1993 Counsellor-Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Mission to the European Communities in Brussels,1996-2001 Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels. In 2001 Under Secretary of State at Chancellery of President of Poland, responsible for European integration matters. In 2005 State Secretary in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since October 2005 Director of the Polish-German Cooperation Foundation (Stiftung für Deutsch-Polnische Zusammenarbeit).
Lilja Twardosz
Immigrant from Ukraine living in Poland.
Karolina Tyniec - Margańska
MA in Journalism, Social Communication and International Relations at the Warsaw University. 2002- 2003 Journalist for Channel 3 of Polish Radio. 2003-2004 the Deutsche Welle correspondent in Poland. Since 2004 has worked as the Public Relations specialist in DaimlerChrysler Automotive Poland.
