Speakers

Dr. Malwina Bakalarska – Business Trainer and Consultant (The Polish-African Chamber of Commerce and Industry), Intercultural Researcher (Polish Academy of Sciences); content editor an co-author of the „Guide to African Markets”, ed. BGŻ BNP Paribas, Warsaw 2018; expert on Africa of the II edition of the Foreign Trade Programme (BGŻ BNP Paribas, KUKE, Bisnode, Rzeczpospolita); member of the committee of experts on Kenya, PAIH Polish Tech Bridges. Diversity management consultant for Diversity Hub; intercultural trainer at the Polish Academy of Diplomacy; intercultural mentor at the Business Link Poland; member of the board of experts of ThinkTank – Centre for Dialogue and Analysis. Commentator of non-European affairs for the Polish mass media. Indexed in ZnaneEkspertki.pl – base of Polish female experts. In 2013-2016 she was a head of the international research project “Africans in Asia” dedicated to analysis of migrations for education and processes of adaptation of Nigerian students in China and Malaysia www.AfricansInAsia.com.

During the Central Europe-Africa Forum, on the first day of the XI European Economic Congress, she will moderate ‘Education’ Panel. On the second day of ECC 2019, as a participant of Central Europe-Africa Forum ‘Investments’ Panel she will focus on intercultural challenges in doing business in Africa.