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Dr Albena Azmanova is a social philosopher, political commentator and activist. She works as a senior lecturer in International Relations at the Brussels School of International Relations [BSIS]. Having taken active participation in the dissident movements that brought down the communist regime in her native Bulgaria in 1987-1990, she studied European Law at the University of Strasbourg, did her doctoral…

David Auerbach is an American author and software engineer residing in New York. David has written for many publications, including the Times Literary Supplement, n+1, Bookforum and Triple Canopy. He was also previously active as an employee of both Google and Microsoft. Read David Auerbach’s blog Information valid as of 23.05.13

Steve Austen is a permanent fellow of Felix Meritis and A Soul for Europe strategy group member. Cultural entrepreneur, consultant, publicist, and member of the group of initiators of A Soul for Europe. Austen, who has been active in cultural life of the Netherlands and Europe since 1966, was co-responsible for Amsterdam as Cultural Capital of Europe, 1987”. Together with…

Vladimir Arsenijević is a Serbian writer, translator, editor and columnist. He was born in Pula and lives in Belgrade. His debut novel U potpalublju [In the Hold] – the first part of the tetralogy Cloaca Maxima and A Serbian Lemonade – received the 1995 NIN award and has been translated into twenty languages. Vladimir Arsenijević played in the punk band…

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Ackermann is a German author and professor of political science, based in Heidelberg. Her research has primarily focused on freedom, a leitmotif of her intellectual career. She has studied social sciences, political science, German language and literature as well as psychology and since 2008 has taught political science at the SRH University Heidelberg, chairing the John Stuart…

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Adrian Wooldridge is an English journalist and author. Currently The Economist’s management editor and Schumpeter columnist (a column about business, entrepreneurship and innovation, dedicated to influential Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter), Adrian has previously worked for the magazine in the capacities of Washington bureau chief and Los Angeles correspondent. Before becoming a journalist, Adrian also spent a prolonged period in academia.…

Ewa Łętowska is a Polish lawyer and senior professor of law at the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Law Studies. In 1987, Ewa became the first Polish ombudsman, a position she held up until 1992, becoming a Supreme Court judge at the end of the decade, before then moving on to the Polish Constitutional Tribune in 2002. Ewa retired…

Anna Giza-Poleszczuk is a Polish sociologist and prorector with responsibility for development and financial policy at the University of Warsaw. She graduated from the University of Warsaw’s Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, gaining her habilitation there, before becoming an employee in the Institute’s Department of Social Psychology, where she specialises in evolutionary sociology and marketing from a sociological perspective. Her…

Łukasz Pawłowski is a political columnist and the secretary of Kultura Liberalna‘s editorial team. A psychologist and sociologist by education, Łukasz holds a PhD in social sciences. He completed his dissertation on contemporary theories of democracy in 2014. Before that he was a visiting academic at Indiana University (USA) and the University of Oxford (UK). Łukasz started his career as as…

Joanna Tyrowicz is a senior economist at the National Bank of Poland and an associate professor in the University of Warsaw‘s Economics Faculty. She is a graduate of both the Catholic University of Leuven and the University of Warsaw and has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Indiana University, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies and Bonn‘s Institute for…

Monika Płatek is a lawyer and lecturer who works as an associate professor at the University of Warsaw, where she previously served as the deputy director of the Institute of Criminal Law. Monika has spent several periods of her academic career abroad, either as a visiting professor or a scholar, on diverse scholarships, including the celebrated Fulbright and Max Planck…