Board of Patrons

Tischner European University enjoys the support from many distinguished Polish intellectuals genuinely engaged in the changes taking place in Poland.The Board of Patrons is composed of members representing academic, political and literary circles.

Our Board of Patrons includes, among others:

Władysław Bartoszewski

member of the TEU Board of Patrons, historian, Poland's former foreign minister
Zbigniew Brzeziński
political scientist, former National Security Advisor to the US President James Carter, Counsellor for the Centre for Strategic and International Studies
Jerzy Buzek
politician, professor of technical science, the Prime Minister of Poland from1997-2001, the President of the European Parliament since 2009
Norman Davies
historian, author of "Europe. A History.”
Aleksander Hall
historian, former minister, activist of Movement for Defense of Human and Civic Rights
Jerzy Jedlicki
historian of political thought, professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences
Lena Kolarska-Bobińska
sociologist, professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, President of the Executive Board & Director of the Institute of Public Affairs
Jan Kułakowski
former Poland’s chief EU negotiator, member of the European Parliament
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
politician, first democratic prime minister of Poland after the communism fall
Krzysztof Michalski

philosopher, Rector of the Institute for Human Science in Vienna, professor at Boston University and Warsaw University
Piotr Nowina-Konopka

former Vice-President of the College of Europe in Brugge/Warsaw, President of the Management Board of the Polish Robert Schuman Foundation
Tadeusz Pieronek

lawyer, former Rector of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Krakow
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski
politician, Member of the European Parliament, first Polish plenipotentiary for European integration
Aleksander Smolar

political scientist, publicist, research fellow at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, President of the Stefan Batory Foundation
Władysław Stróżewski
philosopher, professor at the Jagiellonian University, member of the PEN-Club, member of the PAN (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Jerzy Szacki

sociologist, professor at Warsaw University
Jacek Woźniakowski

art historian, writer, professor at the Catholic University of Lublin, founder of the Znak Publishing House
Adam Zagajewski

poet, novelist and essayist, faculty member on the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought
Maciej Zięba OP

political scientist, Provincial of the Polish province of the Dominicans, President of the Tertio Millenio Institute
Andrzej Zoll

lawyer, professor at the Jagiellonian University, former Polish Ombudsman