Director of the Center for International Affairs, Warsaw
Expertise:
• NATO/EU – Russian Relations
• Enlargement of NATO
He was expelled from the Warsaw University and imprisoned in 1968, after participation in students’ protests in March and protests against the Warsaw Pact armies’ invasion of Czechoslovakia in August the same year. Following his release from jail, in 1970 he immigrated to Sweden and completed his studies at the Sociology Faculty at Uppsala University. In 1975, he joined the BBC World Service Polish Service and later became its director (1988-97). He was active in helping the Workers’ Defence Committee (KOR) and other democratic opposition groups in Poland including Solidarity Trade Union, and in other then-communist countries (Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and Helsinki Groups in other countries including USSR). He was co-founder of émigré political quarterly Aneks and the Aneks Publishing House. Following his return to Poland, in 1997 he became the Deputy Chairman of the Polish (public) Radio with the responsibility for programming and later on its Program Director. He was the President of the Center for International Relations, Warsaw from 2005 until March 2009 and now is the Chairman of the Polish-Czech Forum, participant in the Polish-Russian Citizens Forum and a Senior Fellow at the CIR.
• NATO/EU – Russian Relations
• Enlargement of NATO
He was expelled from the Warsaw University and imprisoned in 1968, after participation in students’ protests in March and protests against the Warsaw Pact armies’ invasion of Czechoslovakia in August the same year. Following his release from jail, in 1970 he immigrated to Sweden and completed his studies at the Sociology Faculty at Uppsala University. In 1975, he joined the BBC World Service Polish Service and later became its director (1988-97). He was active in helping the Workers’ Defence Committee (KOR) and other democratic opposition groups in Poland including Solidarity Trade Union, and in other then-communist countries (Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and Helsinki Groups in other countries including USSR). He was co-founder of émigré political quarterly Aneks and the Aneks Publishing House. Following his return to Poland, in 1997 he became the Deputy Chairman of the Polish (public) Radio with the responsibility for programming and later on its Program Director. He was the President of the Center for International Relations, Warsaw from 2005 until March 2009 and now is the Chairman of the Polish-Czech Forum, participant in the Polish-Russian Citizens Forum and a Senior Fellow at the CIR.
