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The Foundation'sTrustees
The Trustees are expert advisors, a group of people of public trust who have agreed to support the Foundation pro publico bono with their knowledge and experience.
Statements by members of the Board of Trustees
Meet the Board of Trustees
Włodzimierz Albin
President of Wolters Kluwer Polska; president of the Polish Chamber of Books, co-founder and chairman of the Council of the Universal Reading Foundation.
Elizabeth Barembruch
Legal counsel, professionally associated for many years mainly with the telecommunications market, participating in the most important regulatory projects and proceedings in this industry.
Dorota Bieniek
Founder and president of the strategic communications agency LoveBrands Relations and LoveBrands Events, lecturer at the University of Warsaw.
Paul Bryndal
Legal advisor, mediator, for many years involved in providing legal assistance to organizations supporting the promotion of reading in Poland, partner of the Barembruch i Wspólnicy law firm.
Tessa Capponi-Borawska
Florentine by birth, Varsovian by choice, journalist and author of books on the history of cuisine and food culture.
Emily Cunningham
Experienced teacher, editor and consultant. Member of the Supervisory Board of Teach for Poland. American of Polish descent, formerly lived in Warsaw.
Maria Deskur
Head of the Słowne publishing house and collections at Burdamedia Polska, co-founder and president of the board of the Powszechnego Czytania Foundation, chairwoman of the FPC Board of Trustees.
Magdalena Duszyńska-Walczak
President of the Nowa Era publishing house, one of the Founders of the Universal Reading Foundation, member of the Council of the Polish Chamber of Books.
Paul Pillar
Economist, manager. Graduate of SGH and Harvard Business School. Member of the Council of the Polish Chamber of Books. Founder and President of the Management Board of Platon.
Aneta Jurska-Gawrysiak
Lawyer, lecturer at the University of Warsaw and Collegium Civitas, graduate of the University of Warsaw and St. John's College, Oxford and Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute in Florence.
Dominik Karbowski
Vice President and co-founder of Selectivv, a company specializing in acquiring, analyzing, and profiling data on smartphone users used in mobile marketing and research projects. Specialist in reach and performance campaigns.
Michal Kibil
Co-founder and Senior Partner at DGTL. Specialist in HR law, new technology law and personal data protection. Lecturer at the Leon Koźmiński Academy and the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw. Incorrigible optimist, following dreams towards beautiful goals.
Olga Korolets
Marketing Director of Rainier Axel Springer Polska; Director of Sustainable Development of the Rainier Axel Springer Group.
Xavier Konarski
Attorney, Senior Partner and co-founder of Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy Law Firm where he coordinates the work of the TMT team in Central and Eastern Europe. Vice-President of PIIT, President of SPNT. Legal Advisor to IAB Poland. Judge of the Court of Arbitration for Internet Domains at PIIT. As a legal expert, he participated in legislative work on a number of acts in the field of new technologies.
Iryna Kovalchuk
Ukrainian philologist, lecturer of Polish at the Department of Slavic Studies at Harvard University, manager of cultural cooperation projects with countries of Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus, cultural animator, translator.
Magdalena Kruszewska
Long-time president and CEO of global pharmaceutical companies GSK and Sanofi, responsible for Poland and Central and Southern Europe, Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Infarma. Psychologist, sociologist, entrepreneur, avid reader.
Anna Lubczyńska-Lafuente
Od 2004 roku związana z polskim rynkiem książki. Przez ponad 10 lat pracowała w Świecie Książki. Od 2016 do 2020 r. stała na czele Wydawnictwa Zielona Sowa. W latach 2020-2023 była członkiem zarządu WN PWN, a od 2021 do 2023 roku prezesem OSDW Azymut. W maju 2024 roku weszła do zarządu spółki Platon. Z Fundacją Powszechnego Czytania związana od początku jako jedna z założycieli.
Maja Latynska
Translator from Polish to English, researcher of European topics, creator of research and educational programs, fundraiser (including Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Civic Education Project).
Grzegorz Majerowicz
Lawyer, graduate of the University of Warsaw, bookseller and publisher, vice-president of the Polish Chamber of Books, co-founder and member of the board of the Powszechnego Czytania Foundation.
Maja Meissner
Managing Partner of her own consulting firm Meissner & Partners Executive Search and Organizational Development. She is an active member of AESC The Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants, NYC. Entrepreneur, investor. Graduate of Management, Scholar of the East Central European Scholarship Program (University of Wisconsin | Georgetown University). Former lecturer at the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the Executive MBA program.
Michal Miąskiewicz
Child development psychologist, graduate of Harvard College and doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, one of the founders of the School of Education of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation and the University of Warsaw.
Ireneusz Piecuch
Lawyer, manager, collector, co-founder and Senior Partner at the DGTL law firm, member of the Board of Trustees of the Leon Kozminski Academy, advisor to the President of Employers of Poland.
Christopher Siemieński
Political scientist, commercial director of Eiffage Polska, member of the board of the Belgian Chamber of Commerce, author of children's books.
Paul Tyszkiewicz
Representative of the Board of the SKM SAR Marketing Communications Association, president of the AdArtis association and member of the board of the European Association of Communications Agencies (EACA) based in Brussels.
Beata Sokol
Financier, entrepreneur. In the 90s, together with her husband, she founded and still runs the catering company Artur Sokół. They serve events all over Europe, preparing a variety of large events for thousands of participants.
Agnieszka Wiercińska-Krużewska
Attorney, senior partner at WKB, Wierciński, Kwieciński, Baehr.
Grażyna Szarszewska-Kühl
Germanist, publisher, manager. She lectured at the Humboldt University in Berlin; worked at Bertelsmann Media, long-time general director of Langenscheidt Polska, and then of the Polish Chamber of Books.
Catherine Wierzbowska
Social entrepreneur, social innovator, Co-founder of the Individual Investors Club and the Black Swan Venture Capital Fund, Founder and long-time President of the Women's Entrepreneurship Foundation, Initiator of the Network of Entrepreneurial Women. Graduate of the Leadership Academy for Poland.
Maciej Witucki
President of the Lewiatan Confederation, member of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council of the United States, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Orange Polska, member of the Council of the Jagiellonian Club.
Barry Zuckerman
Professor and Long-Term Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine; one of 12 founders of the Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics; first Medical Director at Boston Medical Center. Co-founder of ReachOutAndRead.org, Medical Legal Partnership, Health Leads, Healthy Steps, and The Nutrition & Fitness for Life, which have changed the face of pediatric care for low-income families in the United States.