Political scientist, he completed his executive studies from Managing Political and Economic Reform at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. From 2004 until 2009 Nowak was working in the European Parliament as a head of cabinet of EP Vice-President Janusz Onyszkiewicz, and later as a Foreign Policy Assistant. Previously he was a fellow research on EU’s reform and enlargement at the Center for International Relations (Warsaw, 2002-2004) as well as political advisor to the Polish parliamentary delegates to the Convention on the Future of Europe. During the time of Poland’s accession to the EU Nowak was a member of the programming board of the Initiative YES in Referendum and a governmental National Council of European Integration (2002-2003).

e-mail: nowak@csm.org.pl