Prof. Catherine Barnard
Professor of European Union Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
Professor Catherine Barnard is Professor of European Union Law and the Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include European Union law, labour and discrimination law, and competition law.
She has an MA from the University of Cambridge, an LL.M. from the European University Institute, and a PhD from Cambridge. Professor Barnard is a Fellow of Trinity College.
Magdalena Bernaciak, PhD
Senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)
Magdalena Bernaciak is a Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels. Her academic interests lie in the socioeconomic aspects of EU eastern enlargement and industrial relations in Central-Eastern Europe.
Magdalena completed her PhD studies in Political Science at Central European University in Budapest. She was also a visiting fellow at the Institute for Economic and Social Research (WSI) in Düsseldorf and the University of Warwick’s Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU).
Prof. Arkadiusz Sobczyk, PhD
Professor of Law
Managing Partner at A. Sobczyk & Współpracownicy Law Office. Founder of the oldest and largest boutique law firm in Poland which provides services only in labour law and which is dedicated exclusively to business.
He is a specialist in labour law with broad court and negotiation experience.
Prof. Leszek Mitrus, PhD
Professor of Law at the Jagiellonian University.
Prof. Wanda Sułkowska, PhD
An expert in commercial, social, and health insurance. Head of the Department of Insurance of the Cracow University of Economics.
An expert in commercial, social, and health insurance. Head of the Department of Insurance of the Cracow University of Economics. Co-organiser of a cycle of international conferences on the development of the insurance market in Central and Eastern Europe that brought together participants from eight countries of that region. Author of numerous publications in terms of social and commercial insurance.
Frederic de Wispelaere
Senior research associate at Institute for Work and Society KU Leuven HIVA
Senior research associate at HIVA-KU Leuven . He holds a Master in Business Administration (EHSAL – Brussels) and a Master in corporate law (Ghent University – Law Faculty).
He is currently involved in the Network Statistics on free movement of workers, social security coordination and fraud and error. This network is set up by the European Commission DG EMPL to collect and analyse statistics and administrative data on those three fields. Within this network he is among others responsible for the annual report on the posting of workers. Furthermore he has published several papers and reports on the use and impact of posting from a perspective of sending and receiving Member States.
Marek Benio, PhD
Lawyer, graduate of Jagiellonian University, Ph.D. in economics
Vice President of Labour Mobility Initative Association
PhD in economics
Chairman of the Organizing Commitee of the IV European Labour Mobility Congress
Honorary member of Polish Association of Social Insurance (PSUS)
Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Economics and Administration at the Cracow University of Economics
Social insurance and labour law expert. Participated in international research programmes dedicated to pension systems. Author of publications on social security, labour law, public economics and administration. Supervised to a successful conclusion over two hundred masters theses and other papers.
One of top ten lecturers at Cracow University of Economics