Biography
is a full professor in the University of Warsaw’s Centre for Europe, as well as its former director. A former Ambassador of Poland to Thailand, the Philippines, and the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (Burma; 2003–2008), Professor Góralczyk was also Chief of the Cabinet of the Polish Foreign Minister (2001–2003) and a long-term diplomat in Hungary (1991–1998). A prolific writer, he is the author of many books and articles in Polish, English, and Hungarian. His recent volumes in Polish include three volumes on China’s transformation process since 1978 (two of them to be published soon also in English), a study on Hungarian Syndrome Trianon (2020), and a re-edition of his previous essay on Burma after a military coup there in early 2021. He is also very active in public sphere and visible in all kinds of Polish media. Additionally, Professor Góralczyk is a member of the Forecast Committee under the Presidium of Polish Academy of Sciences, and a visitor and lecturer in many universities and academic centres around the world, mostly in Europe and Asia, from Budapest, Prague, and Florence, through New Delhi, Kolkata, and Manipal in India, up to Ankara, Manila, Taipei, Manila, and Shanghai.
