Wojciech Przybylsk

Political analyst and journalist

Wojciech Przybylsk, political analyst and journalist, leads a strategic foresight in Central and Eastern Europe on EU affairs. He is the Editor of Visegrad Insight at Res Publica Foundation. He was formerly the editor of Res Publica Nowa, and later EUROZINE, as well as Europe's Future Fellow at IWM. Advisory board member at LSE IDEAS Ratiu Forum, European Forum of New Ideas, and International Strategy Forum of the Schmidt Futures.

Jacek Kucharczyk

President of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)

Dr Jacek Kucharczyk is the President of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), one of Poland’s leading think tanks.

He currently holds Vice-Chairmanship of the Civil Society Pillar of the Community of Democracies. Dr Kucharczyk was also the chair and member of Advisory Board of Scholarship Programs at Open Society Foundations and earlier served as Advisory Board member of Think Tank Fund at Open Society Institute. Since 2017 he has been board member the OKO Foundation in Warsaw. In 2009-2015 he served as board member of the National School of Public Administration in Warsaw.

Aleksandra Niżyńska

Lawyer and sociologist

Aleksandra Niżyńska is a Partner at Gender Solution. She is a lawyer and a sociologist, specialising in gender issues. She worked as a researcher and analyst at the Institute of Public Affairs, where she established Gender Equality Observatory - a monitoring body for the gender equality principle in Poland. In her research she focuses on women’s participation in politics.

Aleksandra Niżyńska is the author of numerous reports on gender equality covering topics from economic violence against women, violence against women in politics to participation of women in the electoral process. She also worked as a Gender Officer for EIT Food, a part of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

She studied at the University of Warsaw.