Deputy Director for Programme Policy of the International Cultural Centre in Cracow since July 1, 2025. Graduate of the Institute of Archaeology at Jagiellonian University (2002). In 2005-2006, editor-in-chief of Bezdroża Publishing House, specializing in publications on Central European topics. Translator, editor, cultural animator. Associated with the ICC since 2006, initially as an editor, and since 2018 – Head of the ICC Publishing House. Member of the Strategy and Development Team of the institution and Secretary of the International Cultural Centre Foundation (since 2021). Managing Editor of the prestigious publishing series The Central European Library and Heritology, co-creator of the Ister series. In 2021 she was honored with the badge “Meritorious for Polish Culture”.

Full professor of humanities and a full member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU). Since 2015, he has been President of the Polish National Commission for UNESCO and since 2019 the Polish principal representative in the UNESCO Executive Board in Paris. Between 2016 and 2017 he was the President of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. He heads the Department of Economic and Social History at the Cracow University of Economics, as well as the Institute of European Heritage at the International Cultural Centre, of which he is the founder and was its first director from its inception in 1991 until 2017. President of the Board of Jagiellonian University. Doctor honoris causa of the National University of Lviv Polytechnic. His research focuses on urban development, social history and art history of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as on theory and protection of cultural heritage. Author of over four hundred academic publications, including many books. A member of numerous organizations and associations, such as Comité international d’histoire de l’art (full member), Team for Poland’s membership in the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage for the 2025-2029 term, expert of the European Commission in the European Heritage Label project. In 2000-2016 he chaired the Council for the Protection of Monuments at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. President of the Society of Friends of History and Monuments of Krakow and editor in chief of “Rocznik Krakowski”. In 2018, he was elected as vice president of Europa Nostra.

Writer and editor, author of the novel *Rzeszot*, for which he received the Kościelski Award and was nominated for both the Nike Literary Award and the Conrad Award, as well as *Szesnaście na Bourbon*. He is also the author of three poetry collections; his volume *post* was nominated for the Silesius Award in the “debut” category. Editor-in-chief of *Herito* magazine. His essays have been published, among others, in *Tygodnik Powszechny*, *Znak* and *Dwutygodnik*. He is a recipient of scholarships from the “Young Poland” programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Jan Michalski Foundation, and the City of Kraków. He lives in Nowa Huta.