past events

Past events and guests of the club:

 

 

12 December 2011

PCC Christmas Party @The Knaypa 

As every year, members of the PCC met over Xmas dinner to celebrate, in the nice, relaxing atmosphere this special time of the year.
 
 

30 November 2011

Annual General Meeting

 

During the AGM meeting Daniel Stachowiak presented the summary of events, activities and achievements during his Presidency of the Club. The annual report was followed followed by the elections of new President. Dorota Zimnoch become a new President of the Club, elected in the unanimous voting.
 
Several new resolutions  regarding members benefits, Advisory Board, etc.  were also voted during the meeting.  

 

1 November 2011

Speaker Series: Grzegorz W. Kołodko 

The PCC members had a pleasure to meet Professor Grzegorz Kolodko, professor of economics at Kozminski University in Warsaw, renowned for his contribution to Polish economic reforms when he held positions of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. The Professor shared his views on economics, politics and life during a lunch at Ortega restaurant. The PCC members were inspired by the Professor’s passion for economics, travelling and running, some of us even started practising for London Marathon. The discussions were very absorbing and extended well over a lunch hour.
 
 

 

 

 

19 October 2011

Speaker Series: Piotr Augustyniak

Mr Piotr Augustyniak, Head of Tax Practice in K&L Gates based in Warsaw, met the PCC members in the Oxford and Cambridge Club. Moving countries – moving taxes? proved to be a very relevant topic and led to interesting debate on the international tax systems and the newest trends. Members had also a chance to relate the topic to their personal situation or experience which brought additional benefits to the conversation. 

   

 

5 September 2011

Speaker Series: Minister Mikołaj Dowgielewicz

The next Speaker Series event took place in Oxford and Cambridge Club. The PCC members had a pleasure to meet Minister Mikołaj Dowgielewicz, Secretary of State for European Affairs and Economic Policy, the Governent Plenipotentiary for the Preparation of Government Administration Bodies and for Republic of Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Her Excellency, Mrs Barbara Tuge-Erecińska, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the United Kingdom and Marcin Augustyn, Head of Unit in the cabinet of Minister. The subject of the meeting was to discuss the role and key objectives, challenges and opportunities of the Polish presidency in the EU and what that means to Poles in Poland and abroad. After the official meeting members had continued the conversations in relaxed atmosphere.

     

 

            

 

18 July 2011

The PCC members meeting  

The PCC members met in the Institute of Directors to discuss current projects and future PCC initiatives. Lots of valuable ideas were exchanged in the nice, relaxing athmosphere.

 

From the left: Łukasz Rzeczkowski, Mateusz Belcarz, Kinga Ogonowska, Marek Gulbicki, Dorota Zimnoch, Arek Marczewski, Anna Słodka

 

 

18 July 2011

Meeting with Minister Jacek Michałowski, the Head of the Chancellery of the President of Poland, during his visit to London 

The PCC members attended the meeting with Minister Jacek Michałowski, the Head of the Chancellery of the President of Poland at the invitation of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland, Her Excellency Ms Barbara Tuge - Erecińska. During the meeting we had a chance to exchange the opinions and ideas on projects and initiatives that could support Polish Diaspora in the United Kingdom.

 

6 July 2011

Official launch of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union

The PCC Committe attended the official launch of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union organised and hosted by The Ambassador of the Republic of Poland, Her Excellency Ms Barbara Tuge - Erecińska

 

 

27 June 2011

Speaker Series: Daryle Abrahams

Workshop with Daryle Abrahams, Managing Director of Teetch.com.  For those of you who are familiar personality profiling and cognitive styles, Daryle showed us the next generation research on cognitive styles and personality profiling tha significantly enhances the Briggs Meyers framework and makes it more accurate. It was a fun and a very interactive session.

 

     

 

14 June 2011

PCC Wine and Dine Experience Serie

Club dinner at Mint Leaf Lounge organized by Marcin Perzanowski was reportedly an evening of ‘great fun and gourmet food’

 

11 May 2011

Speaker Series: Mr Richard Berkeley

In May PCC was honoured to host Mr Richard Berkeley as the guest of the Speaker Series. Mr Berkeley spoke with great passion and concern about the state of the state of liberal arts education in Poland. He has been ferociously encouraging more accessibility and exposure of the young Poles to music and performing arts. 

Having lived in Poland for more than ten years, Richard has noticed some paradoxes about the policy of the Ministry of Culture in Poland. Moreover, he talked about his belief in accountability of politics and is about to publish a report on the mis-spent millions during the Chopin year and the inability of the Ministries of Culture and Education to formulate and implement arts educational policies in schools. The speaker’s views triggered a great lot of discussion among the event’s attendees.

 

12 April 2011

Social evening  @ Ortega

Once in a while our members are invited to meet and socialize in a less formal environment. The dinner at the Ortega Spanish Restaurant was one of those times when we could enjoy tasty tapas, paellas and delicious wine in a great, relaxed company. We had a lot of laughing and telling stories at the table. Such dinners are memorable and make the unique atmosphere of the club.

In Photo: Rober Stopa, Dorota Zimnoch, Kinga Ogonowska, Aleksander Baranski, Marcin Perzanowski, Lukasz Rzeczkowski, Alicja Nelka, Małgorzata Leszczyńska

 

26-27 March 2011

PCC's Get-Together-Weekend: Warsaw

This year's edition of "PCC's Get-Together-Weekends" initiative was held in Warsaw on the last weekend of March.
PCC's members flew in to Warsaw to meet representatives of Polish organizations potentially interested in joint projects. We are currently working on the development of the ideas engendered during these meetings.
The initiative "PCC's Get-Together-Weekends" is held annually and aimed at gathering club's members for one weekend in order to work together on current projects, discuss ideas for new ones, as well as to have fun together.

 

24 March 2011

Speaker Series: Prof. Paul Reynolds

Meeting with Professor Paul Reynolds at the Polish Embassy in London was an exquisite social and informative event.  Professor Reynolds was kind enough to give a thoughtful presentation on “The European Economy - managed decline or global fight back? How the European economy can once more dominate".  
 
He renounced that the long term decline is not inevitable, and defeatist 'managed decline' policies must be wrested from the hands of bureaucrats in Brussels and in member nation states. He argued for reforms in the European economy, and said that the region can no longer afford the luxury of sleepy and parochial governance institutions, ineffective social welfare, poor policymaking and badly designed & implemented legislation. The speech was followed by an engaging discussion with the gathered audience.
 Prof. Reynolds is quite an extraordinary person. He has advised the Liberal Democrat Party on the domestic UK economy and international economic development and served as a foreign policy adviser in the 2010 general elections. What is more, he is renowned for his advising government ministers in more than 60 countries worldwide, including ten former socialist Central, Balkan and Eastern European governments. In many projects Paul works closely with the IMF and World Bank.
 
 
  
Prof. Paul Reynolds  
         
from the left: Prof. Paul Reynolds,
Magdalena Kozak, Daniel Stachowiak;
 
 
 
 

23 February 2011

Speaker Series: Dr Mark Stella-Sawicki

Dr Mark Stella-Sawicki proudly presented activities and achievements of the Polish Heritage Society which he co-founded. The society focuses on ensuring that memorials, monuments, buildings and other marks of remembrance and presence of the Polish people in The United Kingdom are recorded and their donors remembered for posterity. It also finds the forgotten monuments and restores them.
The largest completed project so far is First official Polish War Memorial at National Memorial Arboretum. It is first official memorial in the UK to the contribution made by Polish forces to the allied efforts in World War II.
In 2010 the Society was celebrating Fryderyk Chopin’s year by unveiling a restored Chopin statue in London (Southbank) and another monument will be erected in Manchester early in 2011. For more information on these and other stunning projects please refer to http://polish-heritage.co.uk/

 

30 September 2010

Speaker Series: Edward Lucas

 

Edward Lucas, Central European correspondent of the Economist and a renowned expert on the area. Theme:
“Poland has never been safer, richer, better-ruled, more prestigious or happier. So why the gloom?”

 

29 July 2010

Speaker Series: Zbigniew Pelczynski

 Zbigniew Pelczynski – former lecturer of philosophy at Keble College, Oxford, the founder of the School for Leaders in Poland. Theme:
„Are leaders born or made? If made, how?” ( Experience of the Warsaw School for Leaders, 1994-2010”

 

6 June 2010

Speaker Series: Jan Zylinski

 Jan Zyliński – UK-born entrepreneur of Polish origin Theme:
„My journey to making money – key lessons for the new Polish diaspora”

 

27 May 2010

Speaker Series: Adam Zamoyski

 Adam Zamoyski, historian and best selling author Theme:
“The state of Polish national heritage – experience from the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow” 

 

21 October 2010

Speaker Series: Krzysztof Pawłowski

In October the PCC was honoured to host the meeting with dr Krzysztof Pawłowski, the founder and rector of the Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu in Nowy Sącz. Our guest shared with the PCC members his views on Polish innovation and the critical path to success. He also shared the information about his current project of building a Multimedia City in Nowy Sącz.