Speakers

Sebastian Płóciennik is a leading analyst specializing in the German economy at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) and a professor of economics at ABiF Vistula in Warsaw. Until September 2021, he led the Weimar Triangle program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), and from 2015 to 2017, he co-chaired the board of the Polish-German Cooperation Foundation (FWPN). He studied law at the University of Wrocław, where he also obtained his doctoral and postdoctoral degrees in economic sciences at the Wrocław University of Economics. He has lectured at institutions in Germany, the United States, South Africa, Canada, South Korea, and India. His specializations include research on the German economy, processes of economic integration in Europe, including the euro area and the banking union, as well as institutional economics.