Aleksander Smolar

Aleksander Smolar is President of the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw, an independent private Polish foundation established by American financier and philanthropist George Soros, and Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. His essays and other writings have appeared in journals throughout Europe and the United States. Between 1971 and 1989 he was political émigré in Italy, France, and England, active on behalf of opposition movements in his native Poland and other Eastern European countries. In 1974 he founded the political quarterly Aneks which he served as editor-in-chief until its closure in 1990. From 1989 to 1990, he was advisor to first democratically elected prime minister of Poland, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, and in 1992-93 he served as advisor for foreign policy to Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka. (2005)

Events

March 25, 2002

November 16, 2004

December 1, 2005