Konrad Popławski

, Ph.D.

Project coordinator

Connectivity and Regional Integration Programme

From 2020 to 2022, Konrad has been the head of the Central European Department, and previously a long-term analyst of the German economy. He is the author of many analyses and several longer studies on the economy of Central Europe and Germany. He has been a coordinator and author in international research projects in the framework of Visegrad consortium of think-tanks preparing expert opinions for the diplomatic ministries of the V4 countries.

Konrad regularly gives guest lectures at Polish universities (including the University of Warsaw and the Warsaw School of Economics). He is a commentator and author of articles for the largest nationwide media. He defended his doctorate with honors at the Warsaw School of Economics with a dissertation entitled "Changes in Germany's Foreign Trade After Joining the Eurozone".

Expertise

Connectivity and economic relations in Central Europe
Regional cooperation (Three Seas Initiative, Visegrad Group)
International trade, supply chains
EU economy with particular emphasis on Germany and Central Europe
Eurozone

Major publications

Future of the EMU: How to make the Eurozone enlargement more attractive- a question of ERM II criteria? AJRC Analyses. Antall József Knowledge Centre. Budapest (2021)
The single market and Poland's competitiveness: the case of German-Polish economic collaboration (chapter). [in:] A. Visvizi. A. Matysek-Jędrych. K. Mroczek-Dąbrowska. Poland in the Single Market. Politics, economics, the euro. Routledge (2020)
Building closer connections The Three Seas region as an economic area (co-author). Polish Economic Institute. Warsaw (2020)
At a crossroads. Crisis in the German automotive industry. [series] OSW Report. Centre for Eastern Studies. Warsaw (2020)
Monetary Union (chapter). [in:] Common Market as a Common Commitment. Letters to the New EU Leadership 2019-2024. [series] Monographs. Polish Economic Institute. Warsaw (2019)
Neue Interdependenz Entwicklungsperspektiven für die deutsch-polnische Wirtschaftszusammenarbeit (co-author). Centre for Eastern Studies. Jagiellonian Club. Polish Economic Institute. Warsaw (2019)
Industry 4.0. Germany's new industrial policy (co-author). [series] OSW Report. Centre for Eastern Studies. Warsaw (2019)
China's offer to the EU: tough negotiations or a coalition against Trump? (co-author). [series] OSW Commentaries. Centre for Eastern Studies. Warsaw (2018)
The Silk Railroad. The EU-China rail connections: background, actors, interests (co-author). [series] Prace OSW. Centre for Eastern Studies. Warsaw 2018
The role of Central Europe in the German economy. [series] OSW Report. Centre for Eastern Studies. Warsaw (2016)
Germany's stance on the TTIP. Background, interests and concerns. [series] OSW Report. Centre for Eastern Studies. Warsaw (2015)
Chasing globalisation. Germany's economic relations with the BRIC countries. [series] OSW Report. Centre for Eastern Studies. Warsaw (2013)
Germany's energy transformation: difficult beginnings (co-author). [series] OSW Report. Centre for Eastern Studies. Warsaw (2012)
Germany's stance on the European Union's Multi-Annual Financial Framework for 2014-2020. Background and interests. [series] Raport OSW: Centre for Eastern Studies. Warsaw (2011)
Emerging Trade Partners of Germany - Comparison of Economic Cooperation with Poland and Russia [in:] Economic Development and Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: Challenges in the Business Environment. Barriers and Challenges for Economic and Business Development. Third REDETE Conference. Banja Luka University. Banja Luka 2014. pp. 298-313
Economic Relations of Germany with BRIC Countries - The Role of German Government. 11th EBES Conference Proceedings. Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Science. Jekaterinburg 2013. pp. 191-205
Is Russia still a BRIC country: exports to Russia during the global crisis from the German perspective. "Baltic Rim Economies: Quarterly Review". 2011. no 3. Pan-European Institute Turku

Natonal and international expertise

Coordinator of the international team of experts writing an expertise Impact of Covid-19 on Global Issues for Visegrad group countries diplomacy ministries (2020)
Member of the international team of experts writing an expertise Schengen and the V4 for the Visegrad Group's state diplomacy ministries (2016)
Head of the OSW experts preparing an expertise on Future of German-Chinese relations for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (2015)
Member of the international team of experts writing an expertise The V4 and Germany: Potentials, limits and opportunities of a strengthened cooperation for the diplomatic ministries of the Visegrad Group countries (2014)
Member of the international team of experts writing an expertise V4 and Switzerland for Visegrad Group country diplomacy ministries (2014)