Holding a PhD form University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, prof. Karpa's research interest embrace innovation markets, innovation policy, as well as climate change economics. As a lecturer, he values the real economy set-up in class and strives for an ever engaging student learning experience.

Antonio is currently a PhD candidate at Kozmiński University wher he prepares the PhD thesis on climate finance. He has been professionally engaged in managing the energy sector in Poland, where he was actively participating in realization of complex business and technical endeavours on a daily basis. In addition to that, he has also been engaged in the development of the Polish innovation ecosystem on behalf of one of the major institutional player that created the very first pre-seed/seed financing and VC financing funds. Thus, his active business experience as well as solid academic background makes him prefectly suited for the applied part of the course.

Veljko Jeremić graduated from the University of Belgrade and pursued a PhD in the field of Computational Statistics at the same University. Since 2009, he has been employed at the Department of Operations Research and Statistics, University of Belgrade (promoted to Associate Professor position in December 2017).

His main tasks include research and teaching activities in the field of Applied Statistics and Data Science. He’s teaching a wide range of undergraduate (BSc) and graduate (MSc and PhD) courses at the University of Belgrade. He is engaged in MSc dual diploma International Business and Management with Middlesex University, as the module leader of Applied Statistics for Business and Management.
In semestrial student surveys, he was awarded as Top 5 Professor five times; six times awarded as the Module Leader of Top 5 ranked courses. He supervised more than 60 BSc and 30 MSc thesis; engaged as the advisor/co-advisor of three PhD students. Served as the committee member for ten PhD thesis.

He took part in Erasmus Mobility programs and taught a wide range of topics at the University Vilnius, Roma Tre University, University Federico II, Université Catholique de Lille and Kozminski University.

He published 50 Web of Science indexed papers with being cited 520 times in the Web of Science. Member of International Statistical Institute, International Association for Official Statistics and International Society for Informetrics & Scientometrics.

Monika Sońta is balancing between the world of academia and business. She is a Researcher and Lecturer (courses in Innovation Management, Organisational Development and Corporate Communication) at Kozminski University in Warsaw, Poland.
She actively participates in Doctoral Seminars and academic events around Europe. 
As a business practitioner, she is an Agile People Management consultant and an experienced facilitator of creative methods such as LEGO®SERIOUS PLAY® and other hands - on, minds - on  approaches.
She is also a certified SCRUM Master and Design Sprint Master and the only facilitator of FORTH Innovation Method in Poland: http://www.forth-innovation.com/ and puts reflective theories into dynamic actions through projects in the area of High-Tech Entrepreneurship (https://fundacjamost.pl/).
Co-author of the book: "Organizational Agility: designing the future now: A guidebook to Future Organizational Design" (https://loom.ly/Oi1M5hk)

Head of Digital Marketing Major and Management in Virtual Environment Studies, President of The Marketing and Digital Transformation Council and a lecturer at the Marketing Department of the Kozminski University in Warsaw. A counsel and business trainer specializing in strategic consulting in the field of internet marketing and marketing automation processes. Managing Director and Owner in Hotel Media Group marketing and consulting agency, a graduate of PhD studies at the Kozminski University and MBA at the University of Bedfordshire. An author of numerous articles on marketing and management, pursuing her passion and sharing her knowledge also during guest lectures at many business-related conferences, including I love marketing, Forum IAB or New trends in tourism.

Anna Tarasiuk - attorney-at-law working on the insurance market since 1999. Anna is a private insurance law expert in the field of both: life and non-life insurance. She provides advisory services to financial institutions, including insurers, banks, insurance and financial intermediaries. Anna advises in relation to regulatory matters, cross-border services, distribution of insurance products, insurance contracts and bacassurance and affinity cooperation.

Professor Maciej Zachariasiewicz, LLM is an associate professor of law at Koźmiński University Law School in Warsaw, an of counsel at Popiołek, Adwokaci i Doradcy law firm in Katowice and an arbitrator at the Arbitration Court of the Polish Chamber of Commerce and the Lewiatan Arbitration Court in Warsaw.

Professor Zachariasiewicz is an author of number of publications in both Polish and English. His research interests focus on the fields of private law, particularly with cross-border elements, as well as on international litigation and arbitration.

Mr Zachariasiewicz’s legal practice focuses on arbitration, contract and commercial law. He also advised parties on a number of different issues of European Union law.

Prof Zachariasiewicz is an alumni of the University of Silesia in Katowice (2002) and the Central European University (LLM 2003) He was a visiting scholar at the Columbia Law School in New York (2013) and carried out academic research in various institutions in Europe.
 

Agnieszka Doczekalska is an Assistant Professor at the Kozminski University’s Law School (the Department of International and EU law) in Warsaw (Poland). She holds a doctorate in law from the European University Institute (Italy) and diplomas in translation from the Centre for Modern Translation Studies (University of Lodz, Poland) and the Institut de Traducteurs, d’Interprètes et de Relations Internationales (University of Strasbourg, France). In the framework of the Sonata Grant from the National Science Centre, she has recently examined the language of national legal acts transposing EU directives. She currently conducts research on language in the human-machine era within the COST LITHME Action (2020-2024). Her research focuses also on copyright regulatory approach to digital and creative revolution, and fandom’s attitude towards copyright law. She has published papers on comparative law, Japanese law, multicultural legal communication, legal multilingualism and legal translation.

Dr Joanna Buchalska is the coordinator of the IP Summer School, who is a professor’s assistant at the Civil Law Department at Kozminski Law School. She is also a barrister, employed in the Polish Supreme Court as a member of the Court Studies and Analyses Office She has a big experience in lecturing abroad, participated numerous international conferences. Joanna was a scholarship holder at EUIPO and the Max Planck Institute in Munich. 
She is the author of many publications about IP and civil law. Full list of her publications and presentations at conference can be found on the Kozminski web page - https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/en/facultyresearch/faculty-search/faculty/?id=3432 
 

Dr Van Anh Le is currently a Teaching Fellow in Intellectual Property (IP) Law at Warwick University. Prior to joining Warwick, she taught IP law at Durham University. Van Anh gained her LLB in International Law in Ho Chi Minh University of Law (Vietnam, 2008) and completed the LLM in International Commercial and Business Law in Bangor (UK, 2011) with Distinction. As a result, she was granted a Bangor University Fellowship to pursue her PhD degree which she was awarded in 2018 without corrections. During the writing of Van Anh’s doctoral thesis, she was granted a research scholarship at the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich) in 2016 and 2017. In addition, she was a recipient of the Eric Sunderland IP Law Travel Scholarship in 2013 awarded by the Welsh Livery Company.
Prior to embarking on academic career, Van Anh completed the Legal Practice Course in Vietnam and worked for a couple of years as a tax consultant in the private sector (Ernst & Young).
She is the member of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) and the IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Network.
 

Dr Ewa Żelazna is a lecturer at the University of Leicester. She was a visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Law of EU External Relations Law at the T.M.C. Asser institute in the Hague and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She completed a traineeship at the Court of Justice of the European Union and attended the International Academy for Arbitration Law in Paris. She was a Research Assistant at the Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. 

Dr Żelazna researchers in the area of the EU’s External Action and she has authored many papers on the subject which have been published internationally. She is currently exploring issues relating to international dispute resolution in the areas of international economic law, such as international investment, international trade and intellectual property.   
 

Dr. Mark Hyland was very recently appointed a lecturer at the Technological University Dublin. Prior to March 2020, he was a lecturer in International Intellectual Property Law at Bangor University Law School, Wales. His main field of research is Intellectual Property Law with a special focus on Copyright Law.  He also has a strong interest in the interface between Intellectual Property Law and related fields such as Information Technology Law and, Competition Law. At Bangor, Dr. Hyland taught Intellectual Property Law, Competition Law, and International Banking Law. In 2016, he was awarded a Bangor University Teaching Fellowship for his commitment to teaching excellence and student support. 
Dr. Hyland was awarded his PhD by Newcastle University in 2014 for a thesis that critically evaluates the application of the tort Private International Law rules to the internet, using online copyright infringements as a case study. 
In June 2019, he was appointed the inaugural IMRO adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Law Society of Ireland.  
Dr. Hyland’s research has been published in specialist law journals such as the European Intellectual Property Review, Communications Law and Computer and Telecommunications Law Review. His most recent research on website blocking injunctions (analysed in an IP context) will be published in the very well-regarded specialist law journal, Law, Innovation and Technology (Vol. 12, Issue 1, 2020 (March, 2020)). In that article, he critically evaluates webblocking injunctions using the important tests of effectiveness and legitimacy. Dr. Hyland’s current research focuses on digital copyright and how geo-blocking/geolocation technology can be used to facilitate the territorial licensing of digital copyright works. His research will also examine possible tensions (in the specific context of digital copyright content) between two important EU laws: the Geo-blocking Regulation and the Portability Regulation.
Dr. Hyland is a qualified solicitor and, from time to time, contributes articles on EU IP/IT Law developments to the Eurlegal section of the Law Society Gazette.
 

Pedro Basista is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich and Executive Editor of the German IP journal GRUR International. He is specialized in the field of intellectual property, he holds a law degree from the University of São Paulo and a Master’s degree (LL.M.) from the University of Munich, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate.

Domenico Pauciulo is Adjunct Professor of International Law at the SSML Carlo Bo in Florence and PostDoctoral Research Fellow at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. He is an Italian lawyer (qualified in 2012) and holds a PhD in International and EU Law. His main fields of research and professional activities are international economic law (investment law), commercial matters, international arbitration and judicial proceedings, public international law, development and human rights litigation. He is a member of several societies and associations, including the Italian Society of International Law and the Italian Association of Arbitration.

Giuliano Vosa is García Pelayo Fellow at Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (CEPC), Madrid. Raised in Naples, he obtained (2008) the Magister Degree at LUISS Guido Carli in Public Law – and worked as a stagiaire at the European Parliament (Schuman Trainee, Legal Affairs Committee, 2009) and at the EU Relations Office (Italian Chamber of Deputies, 2011); from 2011 to 2015 he was Legal Advisor to the Major of Napoli in the area of Public Buildings and Properties, and “Infrastructures and Public Water Management”. Ph.D. at La Sapienza University, he has been Post-doc Fellow in Constitutional Law at LUISS Guido Carli, Department of Law.

Ana Bobić is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the LEVIATHAN Project at the Jacques Delors Centre. As part of the LEVIATHAN team, she is working on questions of accountability in EU economic governance, with a specific focus on the position of the individual in the structure of legal accountability in the Economic and Monetary Union.
Her research interests also include EU constitutional law and theory, as well as judicial interactions in the EU more generally. She completed the DPhil at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford as a Law Faculty Graduate Assistance Fund scholar. Previously, she obtained a B.A. LL.M. summa cum laude at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia in 2011; and the MJur at Oxford as the OSI/University of Oxford scholar in 2012. She was a lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law at Keble College, University of Oxford. She is currently also the coach of the Hertie School’s team at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
 

PhD and Master in International Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Professor of Private International Law and Assistant Coordinator at Mackenzie Presbyterian University - Faculty of Law. Advisor, Latin American Academy of Human Rights and Business – Board Member, Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association. Coordinator of “Mack DH&E: Business and Human Rights” Study Group and Coordinator of the Research Project "Invisible people: prevention and combat of internal and international human trafficking", both from Mackenzie Presbyterian University. Member of the Human Rights Commission at the Brazilian BAR Association, São Paulo Section (OAB/SP). Member of the International Law Association - Brazilian Branch. Lawyer and ESG Consultant in São Paulo, Brazil.

Dr Elisa Moro is the data protection specialist assisting the Data Protection Officer of the Council of the European Union. She has been référendaire at the General Court of the European Union and member of the Legal service of the Council. She has provided legal advice and litigated cases in Justice and Home Affairs and Economic and Financial matters. Dr Moro has a PH D in European Private law and a LLM in European Law.

Associate professor at Nova School of Law (Lisbon, Portugal) with a law degree (2002) and a PhD in Law (2009) from Nova School of Law. Vice Dean of Nova School of Law. Lectured at the Institute for Political and Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and at Lisbon Autónoma School of Law, and was a legal advisor at the Diplomatic Institute of the Portuguese Ministry for Foreign Affairs and at the Portuguese Secretary of State of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Invited professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna (Pisa, Itália), Fundação Getúlio Vargas (São Paulo, Brasil), IDP (Brasília, Brasil) and at the Universities of Business and Technology (Pristina, Kosovo), Burapha (Tailândia), Católica da Beira and Nampula (Moçambique), Montenegro (Podgorica), Mostar (Bósnia Herzegovina), Nagasaqui (Japão), Northumbria (Newcastle, Reino Unido), Petra (Amã, Jordânia) and Tirana (Albânia). Held Conferences in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brasil, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, China, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Mozambique, Poland, São Tomé and Príncipe, Spain, Timor-Leste, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Member of CEDIS - R&D Centre for Law and Society, of the Portuguese Society of International Law, and of the Portuguese Association of European Law. Coordinator of the Data Protection and Portuguese Legislation Observatories and Compliance and Green Labs.

Krzysztof Pleśniak graduated from the Silesian University in Katowice in 1999 (LLM). Since 2004 he is a member of the Polish Bar (radca prawny). He is an official in the European Institutions. He served 8 years in the Court of Justice (most notably as référendaire in the Chambers of Mme Advocate General Sharpston and as a member of the Private office of Mr van der Woude, the President of the General Court) and 9 years in the Council of the European Union as a member of the Legal Service. Currently, he occupies a post of Senior Legal Adviser in Directorate of Justice and Home Affairs of the latter.
His main tasks consist on providing legal advice in the legislative process and on the application and implementation of EU law by the Member States, as well as representing the Council before EU courts and in the negotiations with the European Parliament.
Main fields of activity: police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, fundamental rights, personal data, asylum, Schengen acquis, civil service law.
 

Dr Kushtrim Istrefi is Assistant Professor of Human Rights Law, International Security Law and Public International Law at Utrecht University. He is part of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and the Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law (Ucall), and serves in the editorial board of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review and the ECHR Blog. He has a general interest in the European Convention on Human Rights and its intersection with international security. He has published on a wide range of topics, such as states of emergency and derogations, the right to life and prohibition of torture in peacekeeping operations, UN targeted sanctions and security detentions, counter-terrorism, statehood, accession to international organisations, jurisdiction, and judicial activism.

Next to academic work, Kushtrim has litigated and advised on complex issues of human rights and international law. He is co-counsel for victims of Srebrenica genocide before the European Court of Human Rights in Mothers of Srebrenica v. The Netherlands and Subasic and others v. The Netherlands. Previously he has litigated cases of enforced disappearances before the EULEX Human Rights Review Panel. He also provided legal opinions to Kosovo institutions on Kosovo-Serbia agreements. As a Senior Peace Fellow with Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG) he provided pro bono legal advice on peace agreements and human rights protection in relation to Sudan and Cameroon.

Previously, Kushtrim taught at the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, the VU University Amsterdam, the Riga Graduate School of Law and the University of Prishtina. He was a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law of Cambridge University, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University, the Max Planck Institute for International Law and the European Court of Human Rights.
 

Mauro Puzzo holds a Master’s degree in Law from LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy. He is a fully licensed lawyer admitted to the Bar of Siracusa, Italy. Before joining the OSCE Presence in Albania in April 2020 he has worked extensively with the United Nations: in Gambia with UNDP focusing on access to justice and legal aid issues, with the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan investigating, monitoring and reporting human rights violations and with UNHCR in Italy during the refugees/migrants emergency. He also had working experiences at the International Criminal Court and in researching human rights at the Johns Hopkins SAIS in Washington DC. Mauro is fluent in Italian, English and Spanish and has working knowledge of French. He is passionate and committed towards the furthering of the rule of law and the
protection of Human Rights.
 

Joyce De Coninck (°1988, Oostende) holds a Master of Laws from Ghent University (2013, Magna Cum Laude) as well as an LLM in International and European Law from the Institute for European Studies – Free University of Brussels (2015, Summa Cum Laude). Joyce focuses her research and teaching activities primarily on human rights law, public international law and European law. She has provided lectures on EU law, human rights law and asylum and migration law at Ghent University (Ba., Ma., LLM), at Loyola University (Chicago) and is a part-time lecturer of EU law and EU migration law at the University of Amsterdam. 
Throughout her doctoral research, Joyce focused on determining whether it is possible to hold the EU legally responsible for human rights violations in asylum and migration, or, whether systemic deficiencies in the responsibility framework prevent such determinations.
 

Irene Sobrino Guijarro is currently a Senior Lecturer in Constitutional Law at the University of Seville in Spain. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, that focused on the relationship between federalism and the welfare state in the European Union, Germany and Spain. This comparative work was awarded a prize by the Spanish Centre of Political and Constitutional Studies. She has conducted postdoctoral research at various institutions in the USA, including Harvard (as a Fulbright Scholar) and Boston College. She was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Edinburgh, Humboldt University in Berlin, Aarhus University in Denmark and the Vermont Law School in America. She has produced numerous publications and participated in international seminars and research projects on the areas of Comparative Constitutional Law, Human Rights and EU law. In particular, she has focused on the political and constitutional obstacles to the full enforcement of social rights in the national, European and international contexts, devoting particular attention to the rights to health care, social security and housing. Since 2020, she is a member of the Bioethics Committee of Andalusia.