Sławomir Sierakowski
President of the Program Board of the Impact Conference
Sławomir Sierakowski is a Polish sociologist and political analyst, a Senior Research Fellow in the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), and the President of the Program Board of the Impact Conference. Mr Sierakowski is the Founder and Leader of Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique), an Eastern European movement of liberal intellectuals, artists, and activists. He is also the President of the Stanislaw Brzozowski Association, overseeing its publishing house and online opinion site, as well as cultural centers in Warsaw, Gdansk, and Cieszyn. He has been awarded fellowships from Yale, Princeton, Harvard, the German Marshall Fund, Mercator, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Bosch Academy in Berlin, among others. Previously, Mr Sierakowski was the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Warsaw. Mr Sierakowski became a contributing author for The New York Times in 2013 and for the Project Syndicate in 2015. He is also a weekly columnist for Poland’s largest portal, Onet.pl.
Updated: April 23, 2025