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Maciej Świrski

Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council, designated by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland on 15 September 2022

Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council Maciej Świrski

Master's degree in history (University of Warsaw), MBA degree (IT management) from the L. Koźmiński Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management in Warsaw, graduate of the Polish Municipals Training Program - Wisconsin University - Milwaukee, innovator, social activist, educator. Member of the Association of Polish Journalists.

Since 1996, he has worked in the field of new technologies. Originator of the first twenty-four-hour live Internet broadcast of a licensed national radio programme in Poland; in 1998, he brought it to fruition.

Between 2006 and 2009, he was a member of the Management Board of the Polish Press Agency, where he supervised the financial, technical and Internet divisions.

He developed the Agency's strategy, particularly with regard to the use of new technologies (audio and video in the agency content stream). He supervised the implementation of a restructuring plan changing the technological face of PAP SA, such as the construction of a new agency system enabling the distribution of packaged multimedia content (text, photo, audio, video), described with metadata according to the IPTC standard.   

In 2012, he founded Reduta Dobrego Imie, a foundation whose statutory goal is to defend Poland's good name through legal and informational means. He was the first to publicly raise the issue of the relationship between Poland's image and national security. Under his guidance, a number of Reduta reports were written in which, among other things, the streaming industry and the changes that the 'streaming revolution' is causing in the global media and infotainment industry, the presence of disinformation in the Polish and global media with a particular focus on Russian 'Active Measures' (Active Measures) destroying Poland's image were analysed.

From April 2017 to July 2018, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish National Foundation, responsible for running a strategic communications programme in the USA, which aimed to reach opinion leaders in the United States with Polish content.

Since 2017, he has served on the Supervisory Board of the Polish Press Agency, as its vice-chairman and since 2021 as its chairman. Under his guidance, the PAP Supervisory Board has overseen PAP's technological and organisational change plan and the elimination of the 'technology debt' that arose at the Agency between 2010 and 2015, introduced new services for the Agency's clients, implemented disinformation-blocking measures (Fake Hunter service) and activated the Polish Press Agency internationally.

She is particularly interested in the use of modern forms of communication by people of the "net generation" in the context of contemporary technological change and the impact of this change on the transmission of the Polish cultural code.

Winner of the "Guardian of Memory" Award of the DoRzeczy weekly for the Reduta Dobre Imie - 2015.

Awarded the "Annunciation of the Good News" by Catholic Action and the Catholic Youth Association for the production of the film "From Vilnius to Heaven" - 2017 r.

Awarded the Pearl of Honour by Polish Market magazine to the Reduta Dobrego Imienia for the promotion of Polish values and traditions - 2017.

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