The Defence and Security Programme of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation is mostly focused on international security issues, the defence system of the Republic of Poland, and the Polish arms industry. The main goal of the programme is to elaborate recommendations for Polish public administration that could form a base of further long-term strategies of Poland. The Foundation would also like to trigger debates concerning various aspects of national security and raise social awareness of these issues. The main area of analysis of our research team concerns the needs of the Polish Armed Forces in terms of modernisation and development of the Polish arms industry.
Coordinator of the Defence and Security Programme is Mr. Tomasz Smura (tsmura@pulaski.pl, tel.: +48 22 378 11 94).
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Tomasz Smura
Head of Research Office, Foreign Policy Programme Director, Security and Defence Programme Director
Tomasz Smura is a graduate of the Institute of International Relations at Warsaw University and is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science.
Albert Świdziński
Coordinator of the Wargaming Studies and Simulations Programme, Coordinator of Defence and International Security Programme
Stanisław Koziej
SENIOR FELLOW
Head of Polish mission to Neutral Nations Supervisory Committee (NNSC) in Korea. Former Head of the National Security Bureau from 2010 to 2015.
Piotr Łukasiewicz
SENIOR FELLOW
Polish Ambassador, Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of National Defence, Colonel of the Polish Army Forces (ret.), expert in the field of crisis management.
Skrzypczak Waldemar
SENIOR FELLOW
Advisor to the Minister of Defense, Undersecretary of state in Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General and Commander of Polish Land Forces. In 2005 he was Commander of Multinational Division Central-South during the 4th turn of Polish Military Contingent in Iraq.
Tomasz Miedziński
SENIOR FELLOW
Krystian Zięć
SENIOR FELLOW
Tomasz Otłowski
Senior Fellow
Expert in the field of international security and research fellow at the Amicus Europae Foundation, commentator at the portal "Wirtualna Polska", publicist.
Jerzy Aleksandrowicz
RESEARCH FELLOW
Legal counselor, Senior Associate at Kochański Zięba & Partners specialized in the field of national defense and security, offset negotiation (TOT – transfer of technology).
Tomasz Badowski
Research Fellow
Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Working at the Euro-Atlantic Association (currently as a member of the Executive Council) since 2004.
Rafał Ciastoń
Research Fellow
Public adminsitration representative, expert at the Amicus Europae Foundation. Graduated from Jagiellonian University and University of Warsaw.
Robert Czulda
Research Fellow
Adjunct Professor at the Foreign Policy and Security Faculty of the University of Łódź, graduated from the National Security Faculty at the National Defence University (2007).
Maciej Kowalski
HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENCE PROGRAMME
Maciej Kowalski is an operations management professional based in Warsaw. His research analyzes trends in defense industry, energy industry and transatlantic cooperation in these areas.
Kamil Mazurek
Research Fellow
Kamil Łukasz Mazurek is a graduate of the Institute of Political Science and PhD studies at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science of the University of Warsaw.
Maciej Milczanowski
RESEARCH FELLOW
From 2009 university teacher and researcher, visiting Fellow in Hoover Institution of Stanford University, Member of Zimbardo-Team and head of the Center for Conflict Resolution.
Izabela Oleksiewicz
Research Fellow
Doctor of Humanities specialised in Political Science. She graduated from the Law and Administration Faculty at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska-University .
Grzegorz Rdzanek
Research Fellow
Post Ph. D, professor of the social science in the area of political sciences. Academic teacher. Employed at the Department of North European Countries of Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce.
Reuben F. Johnson
Research Fellow
Reuben F. Johnson is a veteran with over twenty years of experience in analysing and writing about defence technology, weapon systems, and procurement networks.
Marcin Rudnicki
Research Fellow
Employed at the Centre for Crisis Information at the Polish Space Research Centre, an analyst at the Government Centre for Security and Head of the Training Department.
Paulina Zamelek
RESEARCH FELLOW
Doctor of social sciences in the discipline of defence economics, political scientist, expert in the field of industrial defence sector.