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dr hab. Beata Przybylska-Maszner, prof. UAM - President
Political scientist and European studies scholar, Head of the Department of European Integration Studies at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Rocznik Integracji Europejskiej (Yearbook of European Integration). Until 2026, she served as Chair of the Scientific Council of the Polish Association for European Studies and as Chair of its Poznań branch. She is also Deputy Director of the European Documentation Centre at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and a member of Team Europe Direct in Poland, an expert network coordinated by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communication.
She has led and contributed to numerous research projects addressing selected aspects of EU foreign and security policy. Her research focuses on institutionalisation in the process of European integration; the EU’s common foreign, security and defence policies; EU institutional reform; and the EU’s external action, particularly its relations with African countries and selected international organisations.
E-mail: beata.przybylska-maszner@amu.edu.pl
dr hab. Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka, prof. ISP PAN - Vice-President
Political scientist and EU scholar, associate professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, associate professor at the University of Wrocław (currently on leave) and associate research fellow at the Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne in the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science (CESSP) where she previously lectured. Karolina is also an expert of Team Europe Direct affiliated by the European Commission. In the past Karolina worked as a head of EU program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), lecturer at the Paris 2 – Panthéon Assas and at the Masaryk University. Her research lies at the intersection of comparative European politics and parliamentary studies and focuses on EU institutions and reform, EU transnational democracy, European Parliament and national parliaments as well as political discourse analysis. Her work has been published in leading academic journals such as „West European Politics”, “European Political Science Review”, „Journal of European Integration”, „Journal of Legislative Studies” and “Parliamentary Affairs” among others.
Email: kboronska@isppan.waw.pl
dr hab. Krzysztof Koźbiał, prof. UJ - Vice President
Political scientist, associate Professor at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Vice-Dean for Human Resources and Development at the Faculty of International and Political Studies. In 2016, he received habilitations in political science and administration. Krzysztof has been a visiting professor at several universities: Technische Universität in Chemnitz, University of Lepizig (both Germany), Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, the University of Presov (both Slovakia), Peter Pazmany Catholic University in Piliscsaba, University in Pecs (both Hungary) and University of Belgrade (Serbia) and Charles University in Prag (Czechia). He has also completed research internships in Chemnitz and at the Liechtenstein Institut. His research interests include issues related to political systems, foreign and domestic policy of European micro-states and Central European countries (especially the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany) as well as the process of EU enlargement towards the Balkans. He has held scholarships from Erasmus (studies in Heidelberg), DAAD (stay at Ruhr-Universität in Bochum), SYLLF (research in Polish and Czech archives) and the Scholarship and Training Fund of the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism (research stays in Liechtenstein).
Email: krzysztof.kozbial@uj.edu.pl
prof. dr hab. Janusz Ruszkowski - Vice-President
Political scientist and European studies specialist, full professor a the University of Szczecin and a serving as Head of the International and European Relations Chair at the Institute of Political Science and Security. He holds a Jean Monnet Chair ad Personam and heads a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. Member of the Committee on Political Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests encompass the theory and methodology of European studies, Europeanization processes, and multi-level governance in the European Union.
E-mail: janusz.ruszkowski@usz.edu.pl
dr. Tomasz Marcinkowski - Secretary
Political scientist and philosopher, assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Security of the Jacob of Paradies University, deputy director of the Academic Center for German and European Studies (AJP), and secretary of the Board of the Polish Association of European Studies since 2019. Member of the editorial board of Central European Papers. Research interests: European integration, EU health policy, crises in Europe, foreign policy, international security, and the climate crisis.
Email: t_marcinkowski@poczta.onet.pl
dr. Filip Tereszkiewicz - Secretary
Political scientist, assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science and Administration of the University of Opole and a visiting professor at the Department of Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Italy. He is a member of the Team Europe Direct expert network established by the European Commission and a social adviser to the Chair of the Polish Parliament’s Committee on European Union Affairs. He also serves as Secretary of the Executive Board of the Polish Association of European Studies. His research focuses on the European Union’s external actions, its security policy, and Euroscepticism. He is the author of numerous publications in these fields.
Email: f.tereszkiewicz@gmail.com
dr. Piotr Burgoński - Treasurer
Political scientist and European affairs expert, a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Political Science and Public Administration at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. His research interests include: 1) equality and anti-discrimination policies, both in Poland and the EU, 2) the ideational dimension of EU policies, 3) the role of ideas in politics, especially in the process of formulating EU policies, 4) the relationship between religion and politics. He is a member of the editorial board of two academic journals: Athenaeum. Polskie Studia Politologiczne (Athenaeum. Polish Political Studies) and Chrześcijaństwo, Świat, Polityka (Christianity, World, Politics). He has been a member of the Executive Board of PAES since 2019.
Email: burgonski@onet.eu
dr hab. Małgorzata Molęda-Zdziech prof. SGH - Board member
Sociologist and political scientist, Head of the Department of Political Studies within the Institute of International Studies at Warsaw School of Economics’ Collegium of Socio-Economics. From 1998 to 2001, she served as Deputy Director of the Polish–French European Studies Programme jointly run by SGH and Sciences Po Paris. From 2017 to 2020, she served as Acting Director of the Polish Academy of Sciences’ PolSCA Science Promotion Office in Brussels.
Her research interests focus on communication, media and the mediatisation of public life, as well as lobbying and interest groups at the national and European levels. She is Vice-President of EUROPA (Entretiens Universitaires Réguliers pour l’Administration en Europe), an international non-governmental organisation focusing on public policy in Europe. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications on lobbying, communication and media.
Email: mmoled@sgh.waw.pl
dr Zofia Sawicka - Board member
She holds a PhD in Social Sciences in the discipline of Media Studies and is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Security Studies at the University of Rzeszów, as well as Vice-Dean for Student Affairs and Quality of Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She is a graduate of Arabic Studies and Political Science at Jagiellonian University.
Her research focuses on political and social transformations in Arab countries, security in the Middle East, international migration, and the presence of Islam and Muslim communities in Europe. She also examines relations between Europe and the Arab-Muslim world, with particular emphasis on the social and political consequences of migration, integration processes in European societies, and the formation of European identity in the context of sociocultural change.
She has authored and co-authored scholarly publications in political science and international relations.
E-mail: zsawicka@ur.edu.pl