Agnieszka Cianciara (IPS PAN) – from 2019 to 2020
Associate Professor at IP PAN, Head of the Department of International Organizations and Global Security Studies. In 2016-2020, she was Deputy Director of the Institute. Her research focuses on differentiated (dis)integration in Europe, EU external policies, European policies of Poland and France, as well as gender studies. Her last book, “The Politics of the European Neighbourhood Policy” was published by Routledge in 2020. She published in “Journal of European Integration”, “Journal of Contemporary European Studies” and “Turkish Studies”, among others.

Piotr Osęka (IPS PAN) – from 2019 to 2025
Deputy Director for Research at IPS PAN. Historian specializing in the history of communist Poland, propaganda, oral history, collective biographies (prosopography) and perpetrator studies.

Wojciech Pisula (IP PAN) – from to 2020 to 2023

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow (IFiS PAN) – from 2019 to 2021
Professor of sociology of IFiS PAN and director of the Graduate School for Social Research, GSSR (gssr.edu.pl). Irina is PI of the project “Structures and Futures: The Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN 1988-2023” (polpan.org), funded by Poland’s National Science Centre (2022/45/B/HS6/04090), and co-PI of the SDR Project on ex-post harmonization of cross-national survey data, funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF# 1738502, https://wp.asc.ohio-state.edu/dataharmonization/). She also co-directs the Cross-national Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training program (CONSIRT, https://consirt.osu.edu/) of OSU and PAN.

Ryszard Żelichowski (IPS PAN) – from to 2020 to 2025
Employed at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Section on Europe (Zakład Europeistyki). Head of Educational Department.
Research interests: Islands and divided territories (special territories), small countries (Western Europe), countries of the Dutch-speaking area (political systems and political history).