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About Us
Adam Smith Research Center
The most independent research institute since 1989.
Research, ideas, and leadership for a more secure, peaceful world.
ABOUT
Adam Smith Research Centre (Centrum im. Adama Smitha - Pierwszy Niezależny Instytut w Polsce) is the first independent scientific and research institute in the CEE and Poland.
The Centre is not associated with any political institution, it was first established in the form of a foundation on September 16, 1989.
The mission of the Adam Smith Research Centre is researching the economy and acting for a free market - built on the foundation of freedom and morals as well as a free and responsible society.
The Centre is a continuation of the Economic Action - created on December 3, 1988, which was focused on a prominent part of the then free market political opposition. At that time, the Management Board of the Economic Action was headed by Mirosław Dzielski (as a president), Andrzej Machalski and Andrzej Sadowski, who then became the main initiators and one of the founders of the Adam Smith Research Centre. The institute inaugurated its activity in November 1989 by organising a conference gathering free market economists from Poland and abroad (from Germany, Switzerland and the USA) devoted to the assessment of the government's economic program.
The Centre focuses on conducting research, education and proposing specific statutory and legal-economic solutions. Publishes brochures, books and partake television programs. Adam Smith Research Centre brings together an environment of economists, lawyers, political scientists, sociologists, IT specialists and representatives of other fields.
The Centre unprecedented achievement was the preparation and implementation of the "Law on Access to Public Information" (in 2001) and the introduction of a bill on the liquidation of the telecommunications monopoly to the Polish Parliament.
On November 29, 2004, Ph.D Robert Gwiazdowski was appointed as the President of the Center. According to public opinion polls - the Estymator Opinion and Market Research Institute published in April 2003 - Adam Smith Research Centre was already known by about 23% of Polish society. The Centre has been awarded many times for its activities, including for the Chapter of the Best Civil Initiative Pro Publico Bono (2001) or by the Foundation for Economic Education (1994, 1996).
June 22, 2006 Adam Smith Center received the title of High Reputation Brand in Poland - as a "PremiumBrand".
On December 17, 2014, during the celebration of our 25th anniversary, we announced changes in the management of the Centre, by which Andrzej Sadowski became the president of the Center and Ph.D Robert Gwiazdowski, chairman of the board.
Founders
Andrzej Sadowski (1963-) - founder and president of Adam Smith Research Centre - First Independent Institute in Poland (1989), founder of the Research on Conservative and Liberal Thought at the University of Warsaw (1984-1989). Co-founder and member of the board of „Towarzystwo Gospodarcze” in Warsaw (1986-1989). Together with Mirosław Dzielski and Aleksander Paszyński, co-founder and member of the board of the Economic Action (1988-1989). One of the founders (1996) and a member of the management board Transparency International in Poland (until 2003), a member of the National Development Council under the President of the Republic of Poland (2009-2010), a member of the Scientific Council of the Entrepreneurship Research Center of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (2009-), chairman of the board of the Foundation "Together in sickness" (2015-), in 2014 awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland the Order for promoting entrepreneurship, re-appointed to the National Development Council under the President of the Republic of Poland (2015-).
Jan Winiecki (1938-2016) - founder and first president of the Adam Smith Center (1989-1994), economist, member of the Monetary Policy Council (2010-2016), awarded with the Honorary Badge "Bene Merito" awarded by the Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012), professor and head of the Chair of International Economic Relations at the European University-Frankfurt (1994-2003), doctor honoris causa of the University of Gdańsk (2001), executive director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1991-1993), winner of the Kisiel Award (1992), member of the Political Advisory Committee to the President of the Republic of Poland (1991), economic advisor NSZZ "S" (1985-1989).
Andrzej Machalski (1942-) - founder of the Adam Smith Research Centre, awarded with the Officer's Cross (2012), senator of the 1st term (1989-1991), COO of the National Electoral Office "S" (1989), co-founder of the Polish Chamber of Commerce (1989), co-founder of the Economic Action (1988), co-founder and president of the Unicum Labor Cooperative (1984), from September 1980 associated with "Solidarity", a member of the Founding Committee, vice-chairman of the factory committee at the Novum Institute of Press and Publishing (1980-1981). Repeatedly repressed by the communist authorities, arrested in 1982 and in May 1983 sentenced for two years imprisonment. After leaving prison, he continued anti-communist activities, including organisation of a help and escape for a Red Army’s deserter, who was then hiding in Poland.