Family policy in local authorities

Cultural expert, economic ethicist, researcher on the interrelations between culture, family and economy. Member of the Family Council at the Ministry of Family and Social Policy, president of the Family and Society Knowledge Institute Foundation, and expert of the Polish Parents Forum. Associate professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Anthropology and Cultural Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 2003, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Kulturowy wymiar pracy ludzkiej [The Cultural Dimension of Human Work] (published in 2005 by Wydawnictwo Poznańskie under the title Człowiek, praca, kultura. O kulturowym wymiarze pracy ludzkiej [Man, Work, Culture. On the cultural dimension of human work]). In 2014, he published his habilitation monograph entitled Znaczenie rodziny dla międzypokoleniowej transmisji kultury gospodarczej [The importance of the family for the intergenerational transmission of economic culture] (Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2014). Author of more than fifty publications (in Polish and English) on the interdependence between family, culture, and socio-economic development. Since 2016, member of the Family Council of the Governor of Wielkopolska. In addition, member and treasurer of the Polish Business Ethics Association EBEN Poland, member of the Polish Economic Society, member of the European Network for Research on Supplementary Pensions and Fellow of the European SPES Institute.

PhD in Law, attorney in law, university lecturer. Vice President of the Confederation of Non-Governmental Initiatives of the Republic of Poland, an independent organization representing the civil society.

He defended his doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw where he previously obtained his master’s degree. A graduate of the Intercollegiate Individual Humanistic Studies in the Artes Liberales Academy at the University of Warsaw and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His book W poszukiwaniu pewności prawa: precedens a przewidywalność orzeczeń sądowych w tradycji prawa anglosaskiego [In search of legal certainty: precendent and predictability of judgements in the common law tradition] (Toruń, 2017) was awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science.

Dr Zych serves as an expert in advisory bodies consulting on many areas of public policy, including human rights, the justice system, and the civil society. Former member of consultative councils operating in the Ministry of Justice and a former consultant to the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology.

Sociologist, PhD in health sciences, graduate of Warsaw University and Beijing Language and Culture University. He defended his doctoral dissertation with honors at the National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene. He gained experience in the Ministry of Health and in non-governmental organizations dealing with health in a broad sense - both from the scientific and systemic perspectives. His professional interests include bioethics, sociology of health, and public health. Director of the Center for Social Sciences and Bioethics at the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture.

PhD in philosophy, psychologist, assistant professor at Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw. Member of the European Society of Women in Theological Research. From 2014 to 2017 a columnist for Więzi and a member of the Więzi Laboratory team. Since 2017 author of Christianitas. Pisma na rzecz ortodoksji [Christianitas. Writings for Orthodoxy]. Participant in numerous public debates. Author of the monograph Ordo amoris, amor ordinis. Emancypacja w konserwatyzmie [Ordo amoris, amor ordinis. Emancipation in conservatism] (APS 2018), Osob(n)a:kobieta a personalizm Karola Wojtyły - Jana Pawła II. Doktryna i rewizja [Person/separate woman and the personalism of Karol Wojtyla - John Paul II. Doctrine and revision] (Difin 2016),co-editor of the book "Friendship with the Other. Religions - Relations - Attitudes" (PTPN UAM 2016). Her research interests include philosophy and theology of the person, issues of subjectivity in the writings of the contemporary Catholic Church, understanding religious orthodoxy in the 20th and 21st centuries, and religious leadership. Two collections of her dissertations, essays, and polemics are currently awaiting publication, titled: Religia i walka. Pisma machabejskie [Religion and Struggle. Machabean Writings] and Religia i walka. Pisma jakubowe [Religion and Struggle. The Jamesian Writings]

Graduate of the University of Economics in Poznan, faculty of Informatics and Econometrics. In 2007 he received the title of PhD in economic sciences for the thesis entitled Determinanty głębokości ubóstwa gospodarstw domowych w Poznaniu [Determinants of the depth of poverty among households in Poznań]. This work received the award of the Mayor of Poznań in the competition for the best doctoral thesis concerning the city. Since 1999 until now he has been an employee of the Poznań University of Economics (UEP), until 2017 in the Department of Statistics and Demographics and currently in the Department of Labour and Social Policy. He teaches mainly quantitative subjects: Statistics (and related) and Demographics. He has received the UEP Student Parliament award for the best practitioner of the university six times.

Doctor in Sociology, specializing in the sociology of culture. His interests revolve around the transformations of the hospice movement and palliative care institutions in Poland and the problems of euthanasia. He conducted long-term research among exiles in Kazakhstan. He is a member of the Repatriation Council and a researcher of the indigenous groups in Siberia. He graduated from the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw, where he also defended his doctoral dissertation.

Attorney at law, member of the Bar Association in Warsaw. Director of the Center for Legal Studies of the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture. Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, the Center for American Law at the University of Florida F.G. Levin College of Law and the University of Warsaw and of the European Advocacy Academy program in Brussels. Holder of Scholarship of Acton Institute and Cato Institute. Author of numerous expert opinions and legal opinions on human rights protection, family law, local government law and education law. In the years 2010-2018 he was a member of the City Council of Warsaw.

Lawyer, Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. In her research she focuses on the influence of contemporary political and legal ideas in international law. Her interests also include sociology of law, philosophy of law and family policy. Author of numerous reports, analyses, and expert opinions in the field of international law. Director of the Center for International Law at the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture. She is working on her doctoral dissertation on the evolution of the concept of reproductive and sexual rights in international law.

Law graduate from the University of Gdańsk. He developed his interest in marketing, new media, and public relations by managing the communication and PR areas in Stocznia Gdańsk S.A., GSG Towers sp. z o.o., and Baltic Operator Sp. z o.o. (capital group of Agencja Rozwoju Przemysłu S.A.). In these entities he effectively implemented internal and external communication procedures and long-term strategies. He has experience in working as a spokesperson for public companies and in providing comprehensive public relations and communication services to non-governmental organizations.