The National
Broadcasting Council

Tadeusz Kowalski was born on 20 May 1955 in Wrocław.

Economist, media expert, university lecturer. Graduate of the Faculty of Finance and Statistics at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGPiS) (now the Warsaw School of Economics). Doctor of Political Science (1985), Doctor of Humanities in the field of political science (1998), Professor at the University of Warsaw (2004).

He is a co-author of the first Broadcasting Act of 1992.

From 1991 to 1993, he was a member of the Board of Directors and Director General of the Press Centre Foundation for Central and Eastern European Countries (founded by the SDP, UNESCO and the World Press Freedom Committee). From 1995 to 1997 he was an expert to the National Broadcasting Council and from 1995 to 2004 an expert to the Council of Europe in teams on media pluralism, media concentration and the development of new information technologies (preparation of a report on media concentration in European Union countries).

In 1999 he was an expert at Eureka Audiovisuel (working in Brussels), where he prepared a publication on cinema funding systems.

In 2001, he served as Director General of the National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers.

Between 2002 and 2004, he was the manager of a PHARE project devoted to the Polish state policy in the field of electronic media in the context of the European audiovisual policy (the so-called Green Paper at the KRRiT).

He was twice a member of the Supervisory Board of TVP S.A: in the years 2003-2005 (2004 and 2005 - chairman), and in the years 2011-2016 ( appointed by the KRRiT as a result of an open competition). From 2006 to 2010, he was a member of the TVP S.A. Programme Council.

Between 2008 and 2015, director of the National Film Archive. During this period he was responsible for the implementation of the programme for the digitisation of film archives and the NITROFILM programme financed by the European Union, as well as the purchase and renovation by the National Film Archive of the "Iluzjon" cinema in Warsaw.

In 2008, he headed a team established at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for the preparation of a draft of a new media law on audiovisual media services. He sat on the Consultative Council of the Press Freedom Monitoring Centre of the Polish Journalists Association.

Since 1978, he has been a researcher at the University of Warsaw, currently at the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Bibliology, the supervisor of 7 doctoral theses and over 200 master's theses.

He is the author of more than a hundred national and international publications in the field of media studies (specialisation in media economics, media management, economics of the Internet, social media) and forensics.

Since 2016, he has been the author of annually published reports on advertising expenditure of state-owned companies, ministries and central offices.

On 4 August 2022, he was nominated by the Senate as a member of the National Broadcasting Council for a 6-year mandate.

He was decorated with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Rebirth of Poland.