July 10 - July 20, 2010 - Prague, Czech Republic
European Summer School Guest Lecturers
External guest lecturers have been carefully selected to amend the individual workshops with their expertise. The selection of them fully reflects the name of this summer school - Transatlantic Relations from the Perspective of Central Europe since they come from Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Czech Repubic. Their affiliation (both practitioners and academics) creates another added value of the concept of guest lectures.
Piotr Kazmierkiewicz
Piotr Kazmierkiewicz is a political scientist, affiliated with the Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw. His areas of interest are migration policy, development assistance and EU's relations with its eastern neighbours. He has also edited and contributed to several publications on EU enlargement, transatlantic relations, security and development. Policy consultant with record of collaboration with PASOS, IOM, UNDP and EC.
Stephen Baskerville
Stephen Baskerville is associate professor of government at Patrick Henry College, where he teaches Comparative and European Politics and Political Theory. He is the author of Not Peace but a Sword: The Political Theology of the English Revolution and other works on religion and politics. More recently, he has researched and written about the politics of the family.
Zoltan Pogatsa
Zoltan Pogatsa is a member of Institute for Social and European Studies, Szombathely, Hungary. He is a guest lecturer at University of Graz and Université de Nancy, he also works at the Hungarian Academy of Science. Zoltan provides many vocational trainigs for private sector. He deals with different aspects of European integration with the focus on the position of Hungary.
Lucia Najslova
Lucia Najšlová has been since 2004 the Editor-in-chief of Zahraniční politika, Slovak foreign policy magazine. The magazine is published by the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, an independent Bratislava based think-tank, where she works also as an analyst in European studies program. She authored and coauthored articles and policy briefs on topics related to EU Enlargement, ENP, EU & Turkey relations and the Cyprus issue.
Petr Lunak
Petr Luňák is hitorian and political scientist. He has achieved the academic title Doc. at the Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences for his publication "Západ" (West). He is currently working as a director for East-European projects in the NATO headquarter in Brussels (Department of Information and Press).
Tomas Sedlacek
Tomáš Sedláček is a Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at ČSOB, the biggest Czech bank. Prior to that, he served for more than two years as a non-political expert advisor to the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Czech Republic, with the special responsibility over fiscal consolidation and reforms. Earlier he served as an economic advisor of the President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel till the end of his term in office.