Born in 1979, Sławomir Sierakowski is a Polish sociologist and political commentator. He is a founder and leader of Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique), an Eastern European movement of liberal intellectuals, artists and activists, with branches in Ukraine and Russia. He is also the director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw and the president of the Stanislaw Brzozowski Association, overseeing its publishing house; its online opinion site; cultural centers in Warsaw, Gdansk, Lodz and Cieszyn, in Poland, and in Kiev, Ukraine; and 20 local clubs.
A graduate of the University of Warsaw, Mr. Sierakowski has been awarded fellowships from Yale, Princeton and Harvard and from the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He has written for many journals and newspapers, including The Guardian, El País, Haaretz, Die Tageszeitung and Gazeta Wyborcza. He has also collaborated (as a writer and actor) on Mary Koszmary (Nightmares) in 2008, which was expanded into a film trilogy, And Europe Will Be Stunned, by the Israeli-Dutch visual artist Yael Bartana. The work represented Poland in the 2011 Venice Biennale. Mr. Sierakowski became a contributing opinion writer for The International New York Times in the fall of 2013.
