About Us

Mikołaj Różycki

President

University of Warsaw and Warsaw School of Economics graduate.

Between 2016-2018 he was appointed President of the FIRE Foundation, part of the Industrial Development Agency Group.

Between 2004-2016 he worked at the Foundation for the Development of the Education System, the National Agency for education programmes of the European Commission in Poland, where for over 10 years he managed numerous teams implementing strategic education programmes including “Youth in action” and “Erasmus+”.

He co-led numerous training and educational projects on a national and international level. He evaluated applications for funding in the Polish-Lithuanian Exchange Fund, the Civic Initiatives Fund, the “Good Idea” programme and in corporate foundation programmes.

Furthermore, he participated in numerous consulting and analytics endeavours for large, medium and small businesses, including start-ups. He co-led the “FIRE Innovation Centre for Early Stage Businesses” and the trial programme “Good Idea” supporting innovators, which was co-executed with the Polish Development Fund (PFR).

For more than a decade he was engaged in social work with children and youth. He volunteers for several NGOs.

Since 2006 his written work on matters of Economics, Social Policy, Sports, Tourism and Marketing has been published on the internet and in the press. He was Chief Editor of the website www.mlodziez.org.pl, he co-led the website www.marketingsportowy.pl and co-created the academic monthly “Koncept” since its very beginning. He used to work in press offices of companies and organisations during nationwide social and economic events.

Paweł Olejnik

Deputy President

Doctor of Philosophy in Law (degree obtained from University of Warmia and Mazury) and a graduate of Faculty of Law, University of Rzeszów. Legal counsel in the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Rzeszów.

Appointed for Deputy President of Polish Agency for Enterprise Development on October 1st, 2021. Previously performed a function of Deputy Director of Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ, Polish Armaments Group).

Between 2018 and 2021, appointed by the Minister of National Defence, he held the positions of Director of Inspectorate for Implementation of Innovation Defence Technologies and Plenipotentiary for establishing the Armament Agency.

Between 2016 and 2018 he held the positions of Director of the Pension Office and Director of Centre for Document Personalization at the Ministry of the Interior and Administration. In 2015 he was President of the Board at the Thermal Power Plant in Rawa Mazowiecka. Between 2006 and 2015 he comanaged Legislation and Analysis Group in Parliamentary Club of Law and Justice party. He has extensive experience in supervisory bodies of Polish legal entities.