The Chair Director: Alexandra Richie, doctor and professor at Collegium Civitas, started work in the university in the early autumn of 2014. From January 2015 she has been a full-time employee and is involved in the preparation of summer school programmes and semester-long exchange programmes, which constitute part of the Central and Eastern European studies. Prof. Richie has taken over the coordination of one with the newest fields being developed at Collegium Civitas.

Professor Alexandra Richie is a historian specializing in Germany as well as Central and Eastern Europe and defense and security issues.  She wrote her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford on The Political Manipulation of History in East and West Germany.

After graduating, she worked for the Boston Consulting Group (London) restructuring industries across Central and Eastern Europe before returning to Oxford as a Fellow of Wolfson College where she taught History and Political Philosophy. She is the author of “Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin” which was named one of top ten books of the year by American Publisher’s Weekly, and “Warsaw 1944: The Fateful Uprising”  which won the Newsweek Teresa Torańska Prize for best non-fiction book of 2014 and the Kazimierz Moczarski Prize for Best History Book in Poland 2015. She has contributed to many articles, documentaries, radio and television programs. She is a Presidential Counselor at the National World War II Museum, New Orleans, U.S.A. and a Governor of St Michael’s University School In Victoria, Canada.

The Chair operates under the auspices of Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski, the son of the late Władysław Bartoszewski. Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Cambridge and an MA in anthropology and history from the University of Warsaw. Having completed his PhD, he worked as an independent research fellow at the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick. A CEO and board member at international financial institutions in Poland (JP Morgan, ING Barings, Credit Suisse), he was also a deputy CEO and board member at Exatel S.A. (2014–2016). Since December 2023 Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski has been at the head of the Władysław Bartoszewski Chair at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw since 2015. An MP in the Polish Sejm since 2019 (during the ninth and the tenth terms of the Sejm), he was a member of the Polish Coalition parliamentary caucus, a deputy chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and a member of the Energy, Climate and State Assets Committee in the ninth-term Sejm, re-elected as deputy chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the tenth-term Sejm. Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski speaks English, French, and Russian.