Anna Radwan-Röhrenschef is a sociologist, graduate of the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of the University of Warsaw. She completed post-graduate European studies at the Centre for Europe of the University of Warsaw. She is the founder of the In.Europa Institute. In 2006–2015, she headed the Polish Robert Schumann Foundation and is currently sitting on its Founders’ Board. In 2016, she was Director of the Bronisław Komorowski Institute. Her publications include a monograph “Schuman and His Europe”.

She speaks English, French, and German.

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Jakub Wiśniewski holds a doctor’s degree in political studies. He graduated from the faculty of international relations at the University of Łódź and was a scholarship holder of the Surrey University in Great Britain and the university in Joensuu, Finland. He was awarded a PhD in social policy upon defence of his doctoral dissertation “Evolution of Swedish and British models of social policy in 1993–2003”, which he defended at the University of Warsaw.

In 2002, he took a position at the Office of the Committee for European Integration where he dealt with the benefits and costs of Poland’s membership in the EU in the Department of Analyses and Strategies. In 2010–2014, he was Director of the MFA Department of Foreign Policy Strategy. He was editor and co-author of “Priorities of Polish Foreign Policy 2012–2016”. In 2014–2016, he served as Permanent Representative of Poland to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris and later as Vice-President of Globsec, a think-tank based in Bratislava.

A former member of the programme and research boards of Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Institute for Western Affairs, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) in 2010–2015, and Institute of East-Central Europe. In 2010–2013, he was a member of the Polish-Czech Forum. A former regular contributor of “Tygodnik Powszechny”. 

He speaks French, English, and Slovak. Married with three children.

 

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