WJan Błoński was a Polish historian, literary critic, publicist and translator. He was a leading representative of the Kraków school of literary criticism, regarded as one of the most influential critics of postwar Poland.
WKatarzyna Chałasińska-Macukow is Polish physicist and professor at the University of Warsaw. In 2005 and again in 2008 elected for the post of the rector of the University of Warsaw.
WSy-David Friedman is an American and Austrian mathematician and a (retired) professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna and the former director of the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic. His main research interest lies in mathematical logic, in particular in set theory and recursion theory.
WBronisław Geremek was a Polish social historian and politician. He served as Member of Parliament (1991–2001), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2000), leader of the Freedom Union (2000–2001) as well as Member of the European Parliament (2004–2008).
WTomasz Gizbert-Studnicki is a Polish jurist and professor of legal sciences specializing in legal theory, Head of the Department of Legal Theory at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University, legal counsel, co-founder and senior partner in the SPCG law firm, who was also an activist of the democratic opposition in the Polish People's Republic.
WPiotr Tadeusz Gliński is a Polish sociologist, professor, university lecturer and politician. He served as President of the Polish Sociological Association from 2005 to 2011. He was the nominee of Law and Justice, the largest opposition party, for Prime Minister of Poland. In the cabinet of Beata Szydło, he served as the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the Law and Justice government.
WMichał Głowiński is a Polish philologist, historian and literary theorist specializing in the history of Polish literature. Głowiński is a professor of humanities and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Głowiński is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Member of the Collegium Invisibile.
WHanna Beata Gronkiewicz-Waltz is a Polish politician and lawyer, Professor of Jurisprudence and politician who served as the mayor of Warsaw between 2006 and 2018. She is the first woman to hold this position.
WDariusz Jemielniak is a full professor of management, the head of MINDS department at Kozminski University, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, a corresponding member of Polish Academy of Sciences.
WJan Oskar Kieniewicz is a Polish historian, diplomat and humanities professor. He specialised in the history of India and European, Spanish and Polish history. He is a member of the Collegium Invisibile and the jury for the KLIO Award.
WJerzy Kazimierz Kłoczowski was a Polish historian, professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and former member of the Polish Senate. During World War II, Kłoczowski was a soldier of the Home Army and participated in the Warsaw Uprising, where he was seriously injured and lost his right hand. On leaving the military hospital in April 1945, he went to Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and then to Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where he earned a degree and a Ph.D. (1950). Member of the anti-communist Solidarity movement – after the fall of communism in Poland, Kłoczowski was elected Senator and member of the Commission for Foreign Affairs of the Senate, as well as the representative of the Polish Parliament at the Council of Europe.
WMonika Maria Kostera is a Polish economist, professor of management and organization theorist. She is known for her contribution to business studies, organizational archetypes and myths, storytelling and narrative analysis in organizational anthropology. She holds professorships at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, at Durham University, United Kingdom, and at Linnaeus University in Sweden.
WMarcin Feliks Król was a Polish philosopher, historian of ideas, publicist and professor of the University of Warsaw. Democratic opposition activist in the Polish People's Republic.
WRyszard Antoni Legutko, born 24 December 1949, is a Polish philosopher and politician, and professor of philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, specializing in ancient philosophy and political theory.
WKrzysztof Meyer is a Polish composer, pianist, and music scholar, formerly Dean of the Department of Music Theory (1972–1975) at the State College of Music, and president of the Union of Polish Composers (1985–1989). Meyer served as professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne from 1987 to 2008, prior to his retirement.
WAndrzej Marian Olechowski is a Polish politician. He was one of the co-founders of liberal conservative party Civic Platform in 2001 with Maciej Płażyński and Donald Tusk. He served as Minister of Finance (1992) in the Jan Olszewski's Government and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993–1995) in the Waldemar Pawlak's Government.
WZbigniew Pełczyński was a Polish-British political philosopher and academic. He taught politics at Pembroke College, Oxford from 1957 to 1992, and was later an Emeritus Fellow of the college. Pełczyński was instrumental in providing opportunities for scholars from Poland and other post-communist countries to study at British universities, especially at Oxford and Cambridge.
WWojciech Roszkowski OOB is a Polish nobleman, economic historian and writer, specializing in Polish and European history of the 20th and 21st century. He was a politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2004–2009. From 1980 to 1983 he was a member of the independent self-governing trade union Solidarność. From 1990 to 1993 he served as vice-rector of Warsaw School of Economics.
WMarek Jan Siemek was a Polish philosopher and historian of German transcendental philosophy. He was a professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw and the director of its Department of Social Philosophy.
WAndrzej Sławiński is a Polish economist and Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics. He is a member of the Council of Monetary Policies since 2004 and a fellow of Collegium Invisibile.
WPaweł Śpiewak is the Director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. He is a sociologist, historian, author and former politician.