The goals of the Fund are set by the Council
The Council comprises between seven and nine members. It is composed of MPs and Senators, as well as experts in the filed of development cooperation.
Chairperson and members of the Council are appointed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Chairperson of the Council
The Council is chaired by the Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for development cooperation.
President of the Supervisory Board
The President of the Supervisory Board is in charge of day-to-day activities of the Fund. The President is appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in consultation with the Council, for a three-year term of office.
Reports
Every year the Fund presents a report on the implementation of development cooperation tasks to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Sejm (lower house of the Polish Parliament).
The Council
Jakub Wiśniewski – Chairman of the FSM Council
Marcin Bosacki
Maciej Konieczny
Anna Radwan-Röhrenschef
Krzysztof Stanowski
Konrad Szymański
Robert Tyszkiewicz
Aleksandra Wiśniewska
Maciej Żywno
President of the Supervisory Board
Henryk Litwin, Ph.D., Professor at the University of Warsaw
Historian, diplomat, Doctor of Humanities, Professor at Warsaw University, Consul General in Lviv, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Belarus and Ukraine, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and university lecturer.
He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1991. He became the first Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Lviv. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was Deputy Director of the Eastern Europe Department, responsible for Poland’s relations with Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. From 1997 he was Head of the Consular Department at the Polish Embassy in Rome. From 2001 to 2005 he was Deputy Ambassador and Head of the Political Department at the Embassy in Moscow. On his return to Poland, he was Head of the Russian Federation Department and Deputy Director of the Eastern Policy Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was then appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Belarus. In 2010, he was appointed Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where his responsibilities included Eastern Policy and Consular Affairs. From 2011 to 2016 he was Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine. After returning from Kyiv, he worked in the Department for Cooperation with Polish Diaspora and Poles Abroad and was later Director of the European Policy Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Researcher at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Between 1994 and 1995 he worked at the Polish Institute of History in Rome of the Lanckoroński Foundation as the coordinator of the edition of the ‘Acta Nuntiaturae Polonae’. He is a lecturer at the Centre for Eastern European Studies at the University of Warsaw. He has been a professor at the University of Warsaw since 2022.