Vice Chairwoman of CASE Supervisory Council 
Co-founder of CASE

Expertise: 
Social policy, labour market, pension system in Poland

Background:

Current position:
Director, Lecturer, Researcher at the Institute of Public Health -- Jagiellonian University

Previous Positions:
Director of the Institute of Labour and Social Studies (1991-1997)
Head of the Department of Cultural Economics (1991-1992)
Lecturer at the Socio-Economic Faculty of Warsaw University (1979-1982)
Research Assistant and then Assistant Professor at the Institute of Planning and followed by the Institute of National Economy (1971-1991)

Participation in CASE projects:
EU-13: Study on the Social Protection System in the 13 Applicant Counties (Leader)
EU-25: Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure (AHEAD) (Leader)
EU-25: Employment Observatory and Mutual Learning Support Programme (LOT 2) (Leader)
EU-25: Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rural Areas (Leader)
EU-25: Study on poverty and social exclusion in rural areas (Leader)
Poland:On-going evaluation of Operational Programme "Community Initiative EQUAL for Poland 2004-2006
Russia: Review of Budget Expenditures on Social Support and Social Protection 

Education:
Professor of Health Economics (2000) Jagiellonian University,
Professor (1995) and Assistant Professor of Economics (1990) Warsaw University,
Ph.D. Economics (1979) Warsaw Institute of Planning,
M.A. Economics (19) Warsaw University

Languages:
English (Fluent), German (Fluent), Polish (Fluent), Russian (Fluent)

Selected Publications:
• Poverty in Poland. An Overview; prepared for: Growth Employment and Living Standards on Pre-Accession Poland, ed. P. Paci,  World Bank Report, December 2004, Washington DC,

• Opieka zdrowotna w Polsce po reformie (Health care in Poland after the 1999 reform) (z: Z. Czepulis-Rutkowską, M. Sitkiem, A. Sową, Ch. Sowadą i C. Włodarczykiem) - redakcja naukowa oraz autorstwo 3 rozdziałów: I, III, VIII, CeDeWu CASE, Warszawa, s. 308 

• Popyt na pracę cudzoziemców. Polska i sąsiedzi. (Demand for work performed by foreigners. Poland and neighborly Countries), ed., IPiSS, Warszawa 2004, ss. 242

• Integracja społeczna osób niepełnosprawnych. Ocena działań instytucji. (Social integration of disabled people. Assessment of institutions), IPiSS, Warszawa 2004, ss. 180     

• Państwo opiekuńcze a nowe problemy społeczne i globalizacja (Welfare state and new social problems and globalisation), w: A. Kostarczyk red. III Rzeczpospolita w trzydziestu odsłonach. Nadzieje i rozczarowania po 1989 roku, Świat Książki, Warszawa 2004, s. 143 - 164,