Hayian Hua Julita Jabłecka Prysłopska Stefan Jackowski

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Hayian Hua has more than 20 years of international education development
experience focusing on policy development, research and analysis, monitoring
and evaluation, education management information system. At World
Education, he provides technical leadership and assistance in research and
evaluation, management information system, and institutional capacity
development. Haiyan Hua holds both doctoral and master degrees from
Harvard University, and is currently teaching in the International Education
Policy program at Harvard University, Graduate School of Education.
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Is a research fellow at the Centre of Science Policy and Higher Education,
University of Warsaw. She received her PhD in economics and her habilitation
degree in management science from University of Warsaw. In 1984 she was in
the USA as a Fulbright Fellow and in 1990 was an advisor to the first postCommunist Polish Government responsible for the preparation of new science
policy institutions and funding instruments. She has been a member of the
Committee of Science Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1990
and its deputy chairman since 2007. She has been involved in many national
and international projects. Her major interests are science and higher
education policy, management and structures, peer review and the role of
universities in knowledge-based economy.
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Prof. Stefan Jackowski earned PhD in mathematics in 1976 at the University of
Warsaw, where he is currently a full professor. In years 1990-96 and 1999-2005
he served as a dean of faculty of mathematical sciences. He held also several
visiting positions abroad, in particular ETH Zuerich, University of Virginia,
Hebrew Universitu of Jerusalem, Fields Institute in Toronto, and Max Planck
Institute fuer Mathematic in Bonn. Currently Prof. Jackowski is the President of
the Polish Mathematical Society and a member of the Committee of
Mathematics at Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a member of editorial board
of several international research mathematical journals. He published papers
also on the higher education policy. Recently he participated in a team
drafting a strategy for higher education in Poland on request of the Ministry of
Science and Higher Education. In 1998, he was awarded with the Knight’s
Cross of the Polish Revival for his activity at University of Warsaw.
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Janina Jóźwiak is an economist and a professor at the Warsaw School of
Economics in Warsaw, and its rector in 1993-1999. Between 2000-2004 she was
a vice-president of the Committee for Scientific Research and the President
office of the Group of Social Sciences, Economic and Legal KBN. Janina Jóźwiak
is also a member of International Consortium „Max Planck Research School in
Demography” and a member of the editorial board of the series European
Studies of Population, is a member of the Scientific Council of the Central
European Forum for Migration Research.
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Marcin Kilanowski is an Assistant Professor (in Poland: „Adiunkt”) in the
Department of Humanities at Nicolas Copernicus University where he teaches
Theory of Politics, Civil Society, Human Rights, Democracy and Development.
He studied law and philosophy at Nicolas Copernicus University and at Utrecht
University. During his doctoral studies he was worked on various projects at
Oxford University and Harvard University as a Visiting Scholar focusing on
strengthening democratic systems through developing new understanding of
the value of freedom and responsibility in democratic societies. His doctoral
dissertation also focused on these issues, as well as a number of his articles
and conference speeches. In addition to his work in the academia he is
a member of the Editorial Board of Res Pubica Nowa, works as an expert in
international law and human rights for The Pulaski Foundation – Warsaw based
independent, non-partisan institution with a mission to promote freedom,
equality and democracy as well as to support actions of strengthening civil
society. He has also established a think-tank called Institute for Political and
Legal Research, with the goal of developing propositions of legal reforms in
Poland.
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Andrzej Koźmiński is Rector of Koźmiński University, is a corresponding
member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the President of Koźmiński
University in Warsaw and the President of the Board of the International
Business School in Warsaw. Prof. Koźmiński has published over 300 scientific
papers on organization and management in Poland and abroad, including 35
books. Prof. Koźmiński is an elected member of the International Academy of
Management, of Academie Europeane and Academie des Commerciales in
Paris, as well as of the Scientific Society of Warsaw. He was a Deputy President
of the Central and the East European Management Development Association,
a member of the Board of the European Foundation for Management
Development based in Brussels, and a member of the International Committee
of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business. He is member of
the Presidium of the of the Organization and Management Sciences
Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the
President’s of the Republic of Poland Advisory Council for Education and
Scientific Research. Professor Koźmiński is Chairman of the Supervisory Board
of Telekomunikacja Polska SA and a member of the Supervisory Board of
Millennium Bank.
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Professor Lasocik obtained his doctorate of law at the Faculty of Law and
Administration of Warsaw University. In 2004, he received his postdoctoral
degree, also from Warsaw University. In 1993, he co-founded the Human Rights
Research Centre within the Department of Criminology and Criminal Policy
IPSiR at the University of Warsaw. In 2006, Professor Lasocik created the first
Research Center in Poland concerning human trafficking. In 1991, he began
cooperating with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights as a Director of
the Office of Promotion and Development of an NGO. In 1994, Professor
Lasocik became a director of the Brussels regional office for the European
Human Rights Foundation managing the program Phare / Tacie Democracy.
He is the President of the Polish Section of the International Commission of
Jurists, a board member of the Scientific Society of Criminal Law, a member of
the Board of Directors of La International Senior Project in New York, a member
of the Polish Society of Criminology and the Association of penitentiary
PATRONAGE. Professor Lasocik is the European Court Project Coordinator and
an expert on European Union programs on the rule of law, human rights,
democratization and the development of NGO’s. He is head of the Human
Trafficking Research Center and a member of the UN Subcommittee on the
Prevention of Torture in Geneva. Since October 2007, Professor Lasocik has
been appointed the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Lazarski University.
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Dr. Leja works at the Department of Knowledge and Information Management,
Faculty of Management and Economics of Gdańsk University of Technology.
Dr. Leja’s research interests include: knowledge management in higher
education, strategic management in higher education, organizational
development in higher education, management of non-profit organization. He
coordinated two TEMPUS projects on the improvement of university
administration. Since 1999, he collaborates with the Centre for Science Policy
and Higher Education at the University of Warsaw and since 2002 with the
Institute of Knowledge Society and the Polish Rectors Foundation.
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Christopher Lazarski, PhD, historian. M. A. (1977) at Warsaw University: major Greek
and Roman Ancient History; Ph. D. (1993) at Georgetown University,
Washington D. C.: major Russian and East European History. 1997-present, Lazarski
University, Warsaw. Teaches European History and History of Ideas. Current
scholarly interest: political philosophy in general and Lord Acton’s thought in
particular. He is about to complete a manuscript on Acton’s history and theory of
civic freedom (The Long and Winding Road: Lord Acton's History of Liberty). He
recently published a book on the Whites during the Russian Civil War: The Lost
Opportunity: Attempts at Unification of the anti-Bolsheviks, 1917-1919 (Lanham:
University Press of America, 2008). In 1977-83, Dr. Łazarski participated in antiCommunist, democratic opposition and the Solidarity Union, and was also an
underground publisher. He was interned under martial law (1981-82).
Between 1983 and 1995 he lived in the USA. At Georgetown University he was
a graduate student and teaching assistant (1985-89). He was also a Curator of East
European Collection at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University (1990-95).
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Dr. Mbewe is a graduate of Warsaw Technical University where he attained
a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering in 1991. In 1996, he was
awarded a doctorate degree in development economics by the then Institute
of Developing Countries of the University of Warsaw. In 2000, he obtained an
MBA from the University of Calgary in Canada. Currently, he is an adjunct
professor at the Lazarski University and the Chief Financial Officer of
Wapeco Sp. zo. o. He was previously, the Manager of the Economic
Information Department at PAIiIZ and the Private Sector Liaison Officer (PSLO)
for the World Bank in Poland. During the years 2006 – 2009, he was the
Managing Partner of Atria Real Estate Partners – a Luxembourg fund
management company. In the years 2000 – 2006, he was the Chief Economist
of WGI Dom Maklerski S.A. In the past, he held such positions like Country
Manager for a Dutch company Du Crocq Aromatics BV, Country Economist for
Expandia – a Czech investment fund and as a Project Manager with Xerox
Business Services. He is a well-known and widely-quoted commentator on the
Polish economy. He participated in many projects as an analyst and/or advisor.
He undertook the valuation of the companies in the II NFI for a foreign
investor. He has participated in many projects and conferences pertaining to
doing business in Poland. He is also a freelance advisor and strategist for SMEs.
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Professor at the University of Technology, Department of Chemistry. Prof Miller
is a Chairman of the Board of Wrocław Research Centre EIT + Ltd., Humboldt
Foundation Fellow (Germany) and Welch (USA). He is a member of the Polish
Association of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, a Polish representative in the Fuel Cells
and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking to the European Commission, as well as
a member of the International Scientific Council of German Biomass Research
Centre in Leipzig. Prof. Miller is the author of over 90 scientific publications, the
head of many research projects in the area of high temperature chemistry,
materials engineering, chemical thermodynamics and mass spectrometry. He
is also an initiator of the Lower Silesian Centre for Advanced Technologies
(2004-2007) and many projects of technology transfer from science to the
economy financed by national and European funds.
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Prof. Nałęcz was born in Warsaw, 1951. She became an Associate Professor
in 1995. The main field of her specialization is the contemporary history of
Poland. Today she is a General Director of State Archives in Poland 1996-2006,
an Honorary Member of the Construction of the Warsaw Uprising Museum
and the Vice-President of EURBICA. In 2005, she was appointed to the post of
Chair of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education,
Remembrance and Research. Since November 2007, she became a Dean of
the Faculty of Political Science at the Academy of Humanities in Pułtusk and
from 1 September 2008 – the Rector of Lazarski University. Her books: „The
Dream of Power – The Polish Educational Elite and Independence” and „Jozef
Pilsudski – Legends and Facts” gained many awards. Her publications:
„Occupation 1982 journalists in Poland: 1918-1939”, „1998 Chronicle of reviving
and free Polish (1915-1939)”, „1984... Thunder revenge, revenge games wrath of
the people, the people's anger” have become well-known and acknowledged
for their top-ranked scholarship.
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Dr. Pawłowski is a physicist, politician, and was a senator during
the I and II term of the Polish parliament. He graduated from the Faculty of
Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University in 1969,
then defended his doctorate at the University of Mining and Metallurgy. He
published over 40 scientific papers. Dr. Pawłowski was the founder and the
president (from 1980 to 1987) of the „Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej” in Nowy Sącz.
He is the founder of the School of Business – National-Louis University in Nowy
Sacz and the School of Business in Tarnow. In 2008, he became a president of
the WSB-NLU in Nowy Sacz, which has been included in WSB in Tarnow. In the
years 1997-1999 was a part of the team for higher education reform, from 1997
to 2000 chaired the Conference of Rectors of Private Universities. In 1993-1997,
Dr. Pawłowski was a member of the Bureau of National Chamber of
Commerce. It belongs to the board of the Polish Education-Business Forum.
Since 2007 he has served as a member of the supervisory board of the Bank
Pekao SA. He is the laureate of following awards: L. Kronenberg Banking
Foundation „Enterprise for Social Development” for 2000, Kisiel awards for 2002,
and the Entrepreneur of the Year 2003.
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After obtaining his MA from the Institute of Polish Philology, Radosław Rybkowski
started his PhD studies at the Center for American Studies of the Jagiellonian
University. In 2000, he defended his dissertation on the arts management in
American theatre. The same year he started his work at the Institute of Public Affairs
of the Jagiellonian University, teaching on the principle of arts management. The
following academic year he started his work at the Institute of American Studies
and Polish Diaspora. His field of interest include: the development of American
civilization and the US higher education policy. During the spring semester of 2009
he was at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development of
the New York University as a Fulbright visiting scholar and was conducting research
on the emergence of the federal higher education policy.
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Mr. Rymaszewski is a Doctor of Law with a specialization in International
Commercial Law. His professional experience include being a partner at
Copernicus Finance, Vice-president at Elektrim S. A., CEO at KP Konsorcjum Sp.
z o. o., Advisor at Poland’s Ministry of Finance, and an analyst at Tandem
Accelerator Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania. Since 2007 he is the
President of Octava NFI S. A.. Currently he is also a member of Link4 Life S. A.,
Link4 S.A. and the Board of Strategic Advisors to the Prime Minister of Poland.
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Dr. Jan Sadlak has more than twenty-five years of experience in the field of
higher education, international relations and economics. He has been Director
of UNESCO-European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO-CEPES) and
Representative of UNESCO in Romania (October 1999 – July 2009). Prior to this
position he was Chief of Section for Higher Education Policy at UNESCO, Paris
(1992-99). He holds a PhD (1988) in Educational Administration and
Comparative Education from the SUNY/ University of Buffalo, USA. He is
currently Professor and Vice-Rector for International Cooperation at the
Warsaw Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS). He is also
a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of European Studies of the Babes-Bolyai
University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In October 2009, was elected as the
President of the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence.
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Mr. Sadza graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics. He is a corporate
banking manager with 10+ years experience in project, product, process and
channel management in financial services. Extensive banking (ING, BOŚ) and
strategic consulting experience (Boston Consulting Group, Andersen) in
Poland and CEE countries (Hungary, Ukraine). Currently holds position of
Corporate Products Department Director at Bank Ochrony Środowiska S.A.