Team Helsinki Foundation For Human Rights

President of the Board – Expert in cause-related documentary film Mr. Nowicki is the co-founder and Program Director (2001-2003), and subsequently (2003- 2021) the Director of the WATCH DOCS: Human Rights in Film International Film Festival. He works co-operatively with many international film festivals.

Piotr Kładoczny has been cooperating with the HFHR since 1996. He supervises the works of legal and intervention programmes. He is an author of numerous publications regarding criminal substantive law, criminal procedure, criminal executive law and drug policy and a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Administration at Warsaw University.

A lawyer and graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, Małgorzata has been working at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights since 2010. She coordinates international advocacy and research activities, including projects carried out in cooperation with the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. Key areas of Małgorzata’s responsibility are monitoring of the rule of law, the independence of courts and the situation of civil society in Poland and other countries of Central Europe. She is an author and co-author of many reports and analytical papers. Małgorzata Szuleka is a member of the Warsaw Bar.

Lawyer and the graduate of the University of Warsaw, where he studied at the Faculty of Law and Administration. He also studied law in Istanbul. Kerymov has been cooperating with the HFHR since 2001. He is a coordinator of international educational projects in Commonwealth of Independent States.

Member of the Board. A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Philology of the University of Białystok, Aleksandra holds a doctoral degree in law. In 2012-2017, she worked for the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture at the Office of the Ombudsman, and since 2016 has been a co-chair of the NMPT Committee of Experts. Since 2018, Aleksandra has been affiliated with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights where she works as an expert in areas such as strategic litigation and monitoring of human rights in the countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.

Sociologist and co-founder of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in 1989. Chair of the Board of the HFHR from 2008 to 2021. Ms. Przywara worked in a design office and the Department Institute of Construction, following which she was employed at the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the 1980s, she was the mediator of the Mazovia Region's Mediation Committee at the "Solidarity" Independent Self-Governing Trade Union. Since 1982, she has been a member of the Helsinki Committee in Poland and the co-author of some of its reports.

Psychologist and professor at the University of Warsaw. He joined "Solidarity" in 1980 and became a member of the organization’s Council for the Mazovia Region the following year.  Prof. Grzelak represented the local institutions of the trade union at the First National Congress of Delegates in Gdansk. During that time, he also joined the "Freedom-Justice-Independence" Self-Governing Republic Club (KSR ,,Wolność-Sprawiedliwość-Niepodległość"). Following the declaration of martial law, he was victimized by agents of the Security Service (Służba Bezpieczeństwa) and forced to resign from the position of a dean. He cooperated with the Solidarity Underground including its Temporary Coordinating Committee (Tymczasowa Komisja Koordynacyjna) and the Helsinki Committee. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table Talks as the vice-president of the Education and Learning Workgroup on behalf of the opposition. Following the establishment of Tadeusz Mazowiecki’s cabinet, he was appointed Deputy Minister of National Education and held that position until 1991.

Polish economist and politician. In 1991 she was the Minister of Industry and Trade. From June 1996 to October 1999 she was the President of the Polish Business Roundtable. In 1999, she founded the employers' organization Konfederacja Lewiatan and became its President. She held this position until 2019, then she became the President of the Main Council of this organization. Bochniarz has been involved in the activities of the Congress of Women and became a member and a chairwoman of the program council of the association established on its basis. Member of the Support Committee of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

Lawyer, Doctor of Law, university teacher, associate professor at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, specialist in public international law and European law, ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg from 2014 to 2016.

Doctor of psychology and an addiction therapist. Since 1987, she has been associated with the Addiction Therapy Centre of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw. At the Stefan Batory Foundation, she coordinates the Regional Programme for Counteracting Addictions. In 1990-2002 she lectured at the several Polish universities and has been associated with the Polish Psychological Association since 1987. She was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by the President of Poland and a medal by the Minister of Justice for her work with prisoners who struggle with substance abuse.

Lawyer and Professor of Jurisprudence, lecturer at the University of Warsaw. He served as a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal, as well as its president from 2010 to 2016. In 1990 he initiated the preparation and co-authored the draft of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, presented by a group of members of the Helsinki Committee in Poland and submitted by the President of the Republic of Poland to the Sejm as a draft constitutional act in November 1992. Since the beginning of his involvement in the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, he was a member of its Board - initially as a treasurer, and then as a secretary, until his election as a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal in 2007. After retiring as a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal, he was appointed to the Council of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.

Lawyer, philosopher, political scientist, professor of law. At the beginning of his academic career, he was associated with the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. From 1980s, he has been a visiting lecturer at numerous foreign universities, including University of Melbourne, University of Sydney and European University Institute in Florence. He also taught at Yale Law School, Cornell University School of Law in Ithaca and Saint Louis University School of Law. Staff member at the Research and Training Section of the European Centre at University of Warsaw. His research interests revolve around theory and philosophy of law, political philosophy, theory of justice, liberalism and constitutional law. In 2017 he became a member of the program board of the Wiktor Osiatyński Archive.

Professor of the University of Warsaw, Judge of the Constitutional Tribunal (2001-2010). Head of the Department of Constitutional Freedoms and Rights in the Office of the Commissioner for Citizens Rights (1988-1990), member of the Prime Minister’s Legislative Council (1990-1993 and 1996-2001), director of the Centre for Constitutionalism and Legal Culture at Institute of Public Affairs (1996-2001), member of the Legal Science Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Prof. Wyrzykowski has also been a member of several scientific councils such as Legal Sciences Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences, National School of Public Administration, Institute of Sciences on State and Law and the Legal Administrative Studies Institute at University of Warsaw.