http://old.techpresident.com/taxonomy/term/11896/0 Institute for East European Studies, University of Warsaw; Member of the Polish PEN-Club; Chairman of Advisers Group of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Polish Parliament (2009-2011); adviser to the Minister in the Office for War Veterans and Repressed Persons (2008-2011); Director of the Institute of National Remembrance in Szczecin (2004-2008); Director of the Polish Institute in Leipzig (2000-2004); Director of the Polish Institute in Dusseldorf (1996-1999); Editor in Chief in the department national ‘news’ program TVP1; Political commentators in Polish Radio (1994 -1996); Editor in Chief of the daily "Życie Warszawy" (1990-1993); Secretary of the Civic Committee of Lech Walesa; press office of "Solidarity" during "Round Table" negotiation (1988-1989); Deputy editor of the monthly "Więź" (1987-1990); Journalist in the Polish section of the BBC in London (1986-1987); Scholarship of Adenauer Foundation (1984-1985); editor at "Więź" under the direction of Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1973-1981); MA in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Lublin, combined with studies in mathematics at Warsaw University (1973); born in Warsaw 1949. Awards: Knights Cross of Polonia Restituta, Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Annual Award of the University Viadrina, 2008. en