Member, CASE Advisory Council

Expertise:
Privatization, restructuring of state enterprises, small business development, local governance, innovation, business networks

Background:
Previous CASE projects:
· Poland, Team leader, "Knowledge-Based Entrepreneurship: Innovation, Networks And Systems", European Union's Sixth Framework Programme, 2004-2007
· Poland, Project leader, "Innovation networks in the Polish economy: Current state and development prospects", Polish State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN), 2003-2005
· Poland: Senior Researcher, "Partnership for Corporate Governance and Secondary Privatisation in Transition" project, USAID, 2003
· Poland: Project Leader, "Foreign and domestic firms as catalysts in changes in competitiveness", European Union's Fifth Framework Programme, 2003
· Poland: Project Leader, "Effects of Information and Communication Technologies, Human Capital and Research & Development on the Business Environment and Growth", World Bank, 2003
· Poland: Researcher, "Secondary Privatisation: The Evolution of Ownership Structure of Privatised Companies", EU Phare ACE project P97-8201 R, Oct. 1999-Sept. 2001
· Poland: Senior Researcher, "Pre-Feasibility Study for Transfer of Foreign Technology to Polish Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises", German Marshall Fund, Sept. 1999-June 2000

Education:
Ph.D. Economics (2000) University of Lodz
M.A. Economics (1992) Pennsylvania State University
B.A. History (1989) Pennsylvania State University

Languages:
English (Fluent), French (Working), German (Fluent), Polish (Fluent)