Institution: University of Warsaw

Maciej Duszczyk

Maciej Duszczyk

Maciej Duszczyk is a Professor at the University of Warsaw, Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations (2016-2020). For ten years he headed the Migration Policy Unit at the Centre of Migration Research. He has been the Principal Investigator of research projects financed by Polish and European institutions. His research areas are migration, integration policy, social policy and European integration.

During 2003-2007 Maciej Duszczyk served as Deputy Director in the Department of Economic and Social Analyses – Office of the Committee for European Integration (Ministry for European Affairs). Throughout 2008-2011, he held the position of the Member of the Board of Strategic Advisors to the Prime Minister of Poland. During 2011-2013 he served as a Head of Task Force for Migration Policy in the Chancellery of the President of Poland. From 2014-2016 and 2020-2022, Prof.Duszczyk served as a Member of the Scientific Policy Committee (Ministry of Science and Higher Education), and during 2014-2015 he has held the position of Visiting Professor at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.

Maciej Duszczyk is a member of the Transatlantic Forum on Migration and Integration and collaborator of the International Labour Organization, European Commission and International Organization for Migration. He received scholarships granted by the Jean Monnet Project, Carl Duisburg Gesellschaft and the Polish Committee for Scientific Research.

(Last updated March 2022)

Michal Brzezinski

Michal Brzezinski is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. He received his Ph.D. (2004) and Habilitation (2014) at the University of Warsaw. His research interests include income and wealth distribution and happiness economics.

(Last updated January 2020)

Iwona Kowalska

Iwona Kowalska (PhD) is a researcher at Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw. Her field of expertise covers quantitative methods (econometrics and statistics) applied in economics and finance. She has been involved in research projects on procyclicality in banking, macroprudential policy and competition in the banking industry. She has merged academic experience with professional work in the banking and the mobile industry.

Małgorzata Olszak

Małgorzata Olszak (PhD, Associate Professor) conducts research in banking and finance at Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw and has published as an author and co-author over seventy academic works covering these fields. She has been principal investigator in several research projects on procyclicality in banking and effects of macroprudential policy. Her activity also covers attendance at international conferences as a presenter, discussant and chair of sessions as well as reviewing manuscripts in JCR journals.