BIO

Director of the Mark Karp Center for Eastern Studies, he was previously deputy director and head of the Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Team, as well as an analyst on Russian foreign and energy policy in the OSW Russia Team. In the past, he served as coordinator of Ukrainian and Belarusian projects at the Stefan Batory Foundation, and was a visiting scholar at the Kennan Institute within the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He has participated in numerous international research projects, including the Center for European Policy Studies, Think Visegrad and the German Association for East European Studies. He is a regular contributor to Tygodnik Powszechny and Nowa Europa Wschodnia, and regularly lectures at the Diplomatic Academy, the Warsaw School of Economics and the University of Warsaw. In addition, he is a member of the council of the National Institute of Polish Cultural Heritage Abroad „Polonika” and the Presidential College for International Policy.

He is a graduate of international relations at the University of Warsaw and Eastern European Studies at the University of Warsaw. He also studied at St. Petersburg State University and the Warsaw School of Economics. He initiated the publication and edited a three-volume collection of Russian and Promethean writings by Vladimir Bączkowski. He is the author of the books „Zagrożone dziedzictwo. Polish Cultural Property in Ukraine and Belarus” and „The Art of Survival. Soviet Deportations from the Bielsko district 1940-1941”.