Prof. Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse – political scientist and sociologist, he holds a doctorate in political sciences and is a professor at Warsaw University (UW), director of the EU Politics Unit at the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations at UW, expert at the Sobieski Institute and the Jagiellonian Club. He has completed his post-graduate studies in European integration (Universities of Warsaw and Maastricht), and has received scholarships from Oxford, Florence, Yale and Georgetown in Washington. He specialises in the problematics of regional development, European studies and management of public administration.

Author’s email address: tggrosse@op.pl

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