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Before, he was Head of the Department of Planning and Building Permits, City of Fredrikstad and Municipality of Vestby. Abdulrahman Shwan Communication Officer Kurdistan Regional Government 3 Abramowicz Adam Poland MP Parliament MP in 2007–15, Member of the Committees: Economy and Infrastructure, the Subcommittee for Innovation of Economy and Development of Small to Medium–size Enterprises, Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Support Team of PiS, former Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Biała Podlaska City Council Chairman Achinger Elzbieta Poland Member Parliament 4 5 Acunzo Paolo Italy Member of the National Board European Federalist Movement He has worked for years within Euopean institutions in Brussels. In Italy he has collaborated as European Affairs Adviser with many public bodies and civil organizations. Currently he is the Italian ILO – Industrial Liaison Officer for F4E/ITER Organization. Adamczyk Andrzej Poland Member of Parliament Parliament Member of Parliament. Vice Chairman of the Sejm Infrastructure Commission. Specialist in building, road and rail infrastructure. Member of the Chamber of Civil Engineers in Małopolska. 4 5 Adamczyk Katarzyna Poland Deputy Director, Communication & Marketing Strategy Department mBank Graduate of Warsaw University and Warsaw School of Economics. An expert in financial institutions marketing and communica- tions. Has 19 years of experience in that field, out of which 15 in banking. At mBank since 2009. Previously at i.a. WARTA, PBK, BPH & Bank Pekao SA. Adamczyk Lukasz Poland President of the Board Malopolska Entrepreneurship Foundation Entrepreneur, social activist, author of many business initiatives, especially aimed at tightening Polish–Ukrainian relationships. 6 7 Adamiak Mariusz Poland Director of Market Strategy Office PKO Bank Polski SA Manager with over twenty years’ experience in the financial sector. In PKO Bank Polski SA employed since 2010. Previously he worked in a leading brokerage house in Poland Pekao SA, Pioneer Investments where he managed funds investing in Europe, Asia and Africa’s markets. Adamkowski Mateusz Poland Assistant to the Chairman Prawo i Sprawiedliwość Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, specializes in penal proceedings. In the years 2013–2015 member of the management board of the organization “Młodzi dla Polski”. 6 7 Adamus Wiktor Poland Head of Department of Quantitative Methods/Rector Jagellonian University/Insurance Education Higher School in Krakow Professor of the Jagiellonian University, head of the Department of Quantitative Methods. It deals with issues of economics and management; problems solving multi–criteria. Promoter of 22 PhD students. Director of Institute for Market and Economy. Adomavicius Sarunas Lithuania Ambassador Lithuanian Embassy in Poland Ambassador of Lithuania to Poland. Previously he held positions of Vice–Minister of Foreign Affairs. He served as Ambassador of Lithuania in Italy, Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna, Head of OSCE Mission to Montenegro. Holds PhD in Law. 8 9 Afontsev Sergey Russia Director, Economic Theory Department Institute for World Economy and International Relations, RAS Ph.D. in economics. Director, Economic Theory Department, IMEMO. Professor at MGIMO–University. Co–Director of the Research and Education Center on World Economy estab- lished by IMEMO and Moscow State University. Advisor to the EU–Russia Industrialists Round Table. Aghayev Elmar Azerbaijan Manager “Our Future” Foundation Azerbaijan State Academy of Physical Culture and Sport (trainer), Foundation for Development and Support to Young People “Nashe Maybutnie” (psychologist). 8 9 Aivanoaei Alin–Constantin Romania Deputy President County Council Iasi Alsghayr Hassan Libya Vice Minister Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooper- ation. 10 11 Albrycht Izabela Poland Chairperson of the Board The Kościuszko Institute Chair of the CYBERSEC Organising Committee. Author of numerous publications and organizer of conferences related to economic, energy and security issues. Alcaro Riccardo Italy Senior Fellow International Affairs Institute He is a Senior Fellow at the Rome–based Istituto Affari Inter- nazionali (IAI), the Coordinator of the EU–funded Transworld project on transatlantic relations and global governance, and a non–resident fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. 10 11 Algayerova Olga Slovakia Permanent Representative Permanent Mission of the Slovak Republic to the International Organizations in Vienna Appointed the Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the International Organizations in Vienna in October 2012 and concurrently serves as the Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic. She holds MA, MBA and Dipl.Ing. of Economy degrees. Alibegashvili Giorgi Georgia Chairman Tbilisi City Municipal Assembly Education – Tbilisi State Univercity, philologist, professor, author of works in ncient Georgian Literature. Nowadays – Chairman of Tbilisi City Municipal Assembly; member of faction “Georgian Dream – for Democratic Georgia” 12 13 Andriuskeviciute Karolina Lithuania International Relations Coordinator LITGRID AB Andrzejak Przemyslaw Poland President Lodz Regional Development Agency An expert in restructuring projects, consolidation groups and acquisitions of companies. Adviser in the international economic promotion and promotion strategies of regions and cities. 12 13 Andrzejewska Maria Poland Director The Environmental Information Centre GRID–Warsaw Expert in the subject concerning planning, representing the Polish side in European work on INSPIRE data specifications for the topic Land use. Currently the Director of the Centre UNEP / GRID–Warsaw, an organization set up in 1991. Anghel Veronica Romania Foreign Policy Advisor Presidency of Romania Political Science Researcher and Foreign Affairs Adviser for the Romanian Presidency. A PhD candidate in PolSci at the University of Bucharest, she also received research grants from the University of Vienna and Soderton, Sweden. She previously worked as an Adviser for the Romanian Parliament. 14 15 Anibas Josef Austria Project Manager Agency for the Modernisation of Ukraine Antoniuk Sylwia Poland International Polish Professionals Association 14 15 Arak Piotr Poland Senior Analyst for Social Affairs Polityka Insight He heads social affairs desk. He worked with the United Nations Development Programme and at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. He was adviser to the Minister of Administration and Digitization and expert of Freedom House, the UN Global Compact and Institute for Structural Research. Argentieri Federigo Italy Professor and Director of Guarini Institute for Public Affairs John Cabot University He studied at the University of Rome, the University of Budapest–ELTE and Harvard. He has widely published on the contemporary history and politics of Central–Eastern Europe and Italy, particularly on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and its Western echoes, as well as on Ukraine. 16 17 Arkit Tadeusz Poland Member Parliament Member of Parliament, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Waste Management Monitoring. Educated as a mining engineer with a master’s degree from AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. In the years 1998–2007 he acted as Mayor of Libiaz. Arnold Katharina Germany Senior Manager Foreign Direct Investment Conway Advisory Has been active in the field of foreign direct investment attraction in Germany, England, Poland and Spain for 7 years. Her areas of expertise include international market entry, location analysis, investment attraction and promotion. 16 17 Asandei Vasile Romania General Director North–East Regional Development Agency He coordinates the entire activity of the organisation. Before that he was the Head of Human Resources and Legal Department of the Agency for more than 14 years. He graduated the Law Faculty and he has a master degree in Legal Sciences. Aschenbeck–Florange Tanja Germany Partner Banking and Capital Markets Osborne Clarke A main focus of her work is on banking regulation – in particular payment processing and other payment regulation for payment service providers and other companies. She advises national and international (existing and emerging) Bitcoin exchanges on regulatory implications in Germany and advises companies and payment service providers who are planning to accept Bitcoin as a method of payment. 18 19 Astheimer Sven Germany Senior Editor Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Master of political sience at Gutenberg–University in