Władysław T. Bartoszewski, social anthriopologist and historian, MA, University of Warsaw, Ph.D. University of Cambridge, lecturer at Warwick University; Visiting Fellow , Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Research Fellow, St. Antony’ s College, University of Oxford; Senior Associate, Institute of Rusiian, Soviet and East European Studies, University of Oxford; guest lecturer at Cambridge, Princeton, Yale, Columbia and Pennsylvania Universities, and Dartmouth and Rice Colleges, co-founder of the Institute of Polish – Jewish Studies, Oxford (currently member of the Executive Committee); former Associate Editor of POLIN. A Journal of Polish – Jewish Studies;  author, co-author, contributor and editor of a number of books and over 20 articles on history, politics and economics of Central and Eastern Europe. Former Counsellor to the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for the energy security policy.