MICHAŁ SYSKA – director of the Ferdinand Lassalle Centre for Social Thought. Publicist, lawyer, social and political activist. He graduated from the University of Wrocław and completed postgraduate studies in Human Rights and Freedoms organised by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. He also completed a course in the School for Young Social and Political Leaders led by professor Zbigniew Pełczyński, Ph.D. Michał is currently writing his Ph.D. thesis on the postcommunist Left. He is a member of the Krytyka Polityczna editorial team. He wrote for Gazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik, Rzeczpospolita, Trybuna, Przegląd, Bez Dogmatu, Myśl Socjaldemokratyczna and other publications. He cooperates with the anti-fascist periodical Nigdy Więcej and coordinates the social campaign "Szpitale Dla Ludzi, Nie Dla Zysku!" (“Hospitals For People, Not For Profit!”). He organised and participated in many conferences and symposia, both national and international ones, dedicated to the political problems of the modern world. He published the book Ile ojczyzn? Ile patriotyzmów? (How many motherlands? How many patriotisms?) (Ed., Warsaw 2007). Contact: syska[at]lassalle.org.pl.

SZYMON SZEWRAŃSKI, Ph.D. – programme vice-director of the Ferdinand Lassalle Centre for Social Thought, research worker, specialist in environmental development and protection. Interested particularly in the problems of sustainable development. He is a tutor in environmental management, environmentalism, ecological politics and law, ecological consulting and environmental care in land management. He obtained his professional experience in Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Hungary and Slovakia, as well as in the EU institutions of the European Commission and European Parliament. He cooperated with public administration and non-governmental ecological organisations. He is also a member of many academic societies and a coordinator and author of various research projects, as well as the author and coauthor of numerous academic publications and case studies on national economy. Contact: szewranski[at]lassalle.org.pl.

RAJMUND NIWIŃSKI – organisational vice-director of the Ferdinand Lassalle Centre for Social Thought. He graduated as a politologist at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Wrocław. Former Secretary General for the Social Democracy of Poland. He worked on a project of a bill on professional sport. He is actively promoting free software and uninhibited access to public information. He is a member of the Krytyka Polityczna editorial team and a coordinator of the social campaign "Szpitale Dla Ludzi, Nie Dla Zysku!" (“Hospitals For People, Not For Profit!”). Contact: niwinski[at]lassalle.org.pl.

A S S O C I A T E S:

MAREK KRUKOWSKI, Ph.D. - biologist.

KRZYSZTOF STRYCZNIEWICZ - economist.

KATARZYNA TOKARCZYK-DOROCIAK, Ph.D. - specialist in environmentalism.

BEATA GŁUCHOWSKA, Ph.D. - specialist in environmental development.

ARTUR HEBDA - historian.

ROMUALD ŻMUDA, Ph.D. - specialist in environmentalism.