Paweł Świeboda

Paweł Świeboda is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of London. He served as the EU Advisor to the President of Poland in the years 1996-2000. He then headed the Office for European Integration in the Chancellery of the President. In the years 2001-2006 he served as Director of the Department of the European Union in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he was responsible for EU accession negotiations and subsequently institutional reform in the Union and negotiations on the Financial Perspective. In July 2006 he became President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy (www.demoseuropa.eu). In addition to his role at the BDF, he is also a Member of the Lisbon Council, Member of the Advisory Board of the European Policy Centre, Co-President of BELA (Broader European Leadership Agenda) Foundation, Member of the Council of the Amicus Europae Foundation. He also serves on the Commission on Europe After 50 set up by Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and chairs the “L’Esprit de Sel” Group of Experts which is preparing recommendation for the EU Agenda 2020 and is the author of numerous articles on issues of European integration and international relations. He has a column on foreign policy in “Gazeta Wyborcza”, Poland’s largest daily newspaper.