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Paulina Olszanka

Solutions journalism project manager

Paulina is a journalist and writer with a background in anthropology, social theory & political economy. She has worked for Fairfax Media, the Polish Press Agency, the Guardian and De Volkskrant

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska

advisory board member

Senior Research Fellow at the Global Europe Centre, University of Kent.

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Weronika Strzyżyńska

contributing editorial assistant

Weronika Strzyżyńska is currently studying journalism at Goldsmiths as a Scott Trust Bursary recipient. She has written on issues immigration and Brexit for New Statesman and Prospect

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Agnieszka Wądołowska

managing editor

Agnieszka Wądołowska is managing editor of Notes from Poland. She has previously worked for Gazeta.pl and Tokfm.pl and contributed to Gazeta Wyborcza, Wysokie Obcasy, Duży Format, Midrasz and Kultura Liberalna”

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Juliette Bretan

contributing writer

Juliette Bretan is a freelance journalist covering Polish and Eastern European current affairs and culture. Her work has featured on the BBC World Service, and in CityMetric, The Independent, Ozy, New Eastern Europe and Culture.pl.

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Daniel Tilles

editor-in-chief

Daniel Tilles is editor-in-chief of Notes from Poland and assistant professor of history at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. He has written on Polish affairs for a wide range of publications, including Foreign Policy, POLITICO Europe, The Independent and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

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Stanley Bill

founder, editor-at-large

Stanley Bill is the founder and editor-at-large of Notes from Poland.
He is also Senior Lecturer in Polish Studies and Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge, where he works on Polish culture, politics and history.

Stanley has spent more than ten years living in Poland, mostly based in Kraków and Bielsko-Biała. He founded Notes from Poland in 2014 as a blog dedicated to personal impressions, cultural analysis and political commentary. He is committed to the promotion of deeper knowledge and understanding of Poland.

He is the Chair of the Board of the Notes from Poland Foundation.

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Maria Wilczek

deputy editor

Maria Wilczek is deputy editor of Notes from Poland. She also contributes regularly to The Economist and Al Jazeera, and has also written for The Times, Politico Europe, The Spectator and Gazeta Wyborcza. She was previously Marjorie Deane fellow at The Economist in London (2018) and a business consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Warsaw. Maria is a graduate of the University of Oxford and a student at the Polish School of Literary Reportage.

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Ben Koschalka

assistant editor

Ben Koschalka is a translator and the assistant editor at Notes from Poland. Originally from Britain, he has lived in Kraków since 2005.

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Norman Davies

advisory board member

UNESCO Professor at the Jagiellonian University and Professor Emeritus at University College London

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Timothy Garton Ash

advisory board member

Professor of European Studies at Oxford University

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Andrzej Nowak

advisory board member

Professor at the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University

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Shana Penn

advisory board member

Executive Director of Taube Family Foundation

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Paweł Kowal

advisory board member

Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Science, member of the Polish parliaments

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Olga Tokarczuk

advisory board member

Author, winner of 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Sioban Doucette

author

Siobhan Doucette is a historian whose work focuses the opposition movement in Communist Poland. Her first book, Books Are Weapons: The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism, is available from University of Pittsburgh Press. It focuses on the Polish independent publishing movement from 1976 to 1989.

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Kraków to build “premetro” line linking east and west through city centre

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