Karolina Lagiewka Since 2009 Policy Analyst in the European Commission in the Unit of Innovation

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS BIO-BLURB

Andre Kolodziejak, son of a Polish allied soldier in the Second World War and a Dutch mother, is an economist at the European Commission since 2001 and in the 2009 elections he was a candidate for the European Parliament for CDA, part of the European People’s Party.

He studied Business Economics and Macroeconomics at the Catholic University of Brabant in Tilburg, Netherlands. He started his career as a Robert Schuman Scholar at the Research Department of the European Parliament in Luxembourg in 1986.

He taught Economics of European integration at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, Netherlands from 1987 to 2000 and in the period 1989-1992 he combined this work with being chief economist and director of a catholic bishopric. In 1990 he was appointed professor of economics and society by the Holy See. In 1988-1989 he worked as an advisor on European Monetary Union both for the Dutch Government and for the European Commission. He published many articles on the Internal Market, international policy coordination, European Economic and Monetary Union, fiscal policy and economic modeling.

In the period 1998-1999 Andre Kolodziejak was a research fellow at Frankfurt Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. He was a visiting professor in South-America and in several Central- and Eastern European, in particular in Poland, Romania and Slovakia to support courses and conferences dealing with European economic integration. Since 2004 he has been the president of a foundation for lifelong learning and longer and happier working lives.

In 2007-2008 Andre Kolodziejak was an expert on long term economic growth at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. In 2010-2011 he organized a series of lectures on Crisis Economics at Maastricht University Campus Brussels together with the biographer of John Maynard Keynes, Lord Robert Skidelsky. Their book on Crisis Economics will be published by Edgar Elgar in 2012.

Karolina Lagiewka – since 2009 Policy Analyst in the European Commission in the Unit of Innovation for Health and Consumers, in the Directorate General for Health and Consumers. She works in the area of public health, with focus on healthcare innovation and ageing; involved in works on a new European Commission’s initiative of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.

She has an academic background in economics and international relations, with Master degree from the Krakow University of Economics and MA in European Economics from the College of Europe in Bruges.

She previously worked in the public sector, in the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and the Ministry of Economy in Poland, as well as did training in the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.

Jana Gašparíková is asenior researcher in social sciences. Sheworked for alonger period in Slovak Academy of Sciences (Institute for Forecasting), where she had served as achair of several international projects and grants on interdisciplinary issues. Recently she works at School of Economics and Management in Public Administration in Bratislava. Her researchis concentrated on problems of regional policy, innovations and she gives lectures on these issues. She was co-editor of several books published abroad (Methodology Challenges of Interdisicplinary Research in Social Sciences, HSRC Publishers, Pretoria, South Africa,1996 Interests and Values, The Spirit od Venture in aTime of Change, Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington D.C.1999). Her articles reflect also burning issues of management from regional and global perspectives, which were published in her monography Global and Regional Changes, Management and SMEs , Prague 2007. She uses effectively in her research experiences from longer studies at different universities in USA, South Africa,Denmarkand Finland.

Prof. Patrick Francis Gray has been actively involved in curriculum development in Housing Studies, professional placements, Publications, and Research and Consultancy. He has served on the National Council of the Chartered Institute of Housing. In 2009 he has been appointed Vice President and in 2010 President of the Chartered Institute of Housing.He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of Inside Housing and is Northern Ireland Contributor to AXIS, the London Journal for Housing and Town Planning. He has an extensive range of publications on housing management and policy with particular reference to housing in Northern Ireland and has presented to a number of national and International Conferences on housing.