Konrad Popławski

, PhD

Project coordinator

Connectivity and Regional Integration Programme

Konrad deals with the topics of international economic relations, supply chains and transport policy. He’s an author of numerous analyses and several longer studies on the development of the economies of Central Europe and Germany and Eurasian transport corridors. In 2020-2022, head of the Central European Team at the OSW, and previously for a decade an analyst on the German economy. He’s been a coordinator and member of international research teams. Author of expert opinions, among others for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Development of the Republic of Poland.

Konrad regularly gives guest lectures at Polish universities and presentations at conferences. He’s a frequent participant of discussion panels and a commentator for Polish and foreign media (including the Polish Press Agency, Bloomberg, Foreign Affairs, Le Monde). He defended his doctorate with distinction at the Warsaw School of Economics with a dissertation entitled Changes in Germany's foreign trade after joining the eurozone.

Expertise

Connectivity, international trade and transport, supply chains
Regional cooperation (Three Seas Initiative, Visegrad Group)
Economy of the Eurozone, Germany and Central Europe

Major publications

A glass half full. Searching for new sources of economic growth in Central Europe (first author), [series] Report OSW, OSW, Warsaw (2024)

Adolescence is over. Time for updates to the Central European growth model, New Eastern Europe, Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe, Wrocław (2024)

Unequal competition. The consequences of the liberalisation of EU–Ukraine road carriage for Central Europe, [series] OSW Commentaries, OSW, Warsaw (2024)

Running on European tracks. Modernising the rail network in western Ukraine during wartime (co-author), [series] OSW Commentaries, OSW, Warsaw (2024)

Bałtyk jako okno na świat (chapter) [in:] Z. Nowak (red.) Czy morze pomoże. Bałtyk a bezpieczeństwo energetyczne Polski, The Opportunity Institute for Foreign Affairs i Instytut Polityki Energetycznej, Warsaw (2024)

The Middle Corridor A Eurasian alternative to Russia (first author), [series] Report OSW, OSW, Warsaw (2024)

Can the global battle for electromobility pose a threat to Central Europe, [series] OSW Commentaries, OSW, Warsaw (2023)

Russian invasion and COVID-19 – new impulses for development of the Three Seas Initiative, Jagiellonian Club, (2022)

Future of the EMU: How to make the Eurozone enlargement more attractive- a question of ERM II criteria? [series] 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). 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

Expert opinions and international oooperation

Editor of the thematic issue of the scientific journal "Political Studies" of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2024)

Author of the substantive concept and organizer of the study visit of experts to Brussels on the Three Seas Initiative in cooperation with the Research Center for the Three Seas Initiative of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2024)

Author of the substantive concept and organizer, in cooperation with the Polish Development Bank, of the international expert conference on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Poland's accession to the EU “Next 20 years in the EU: Development Challenges for Central Europe” on 27-28 May 2024 (2024)

Co-organizer, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, of a side event during the Global Gateway Investors Forum organized by the European Commission entitled Middle Corridor – Eurasian alternative to Russia in Brussels on January 29, 2024 (2023-2024)

Author of the substantive concept and co-organizer with Europeum of the seminar in Brussels entitiled EVs, subsidies and the future of CEE industry on October 24, 2023 (2023)

Co-organizer with EGMONT in Brussels of the seminar Ukraine in the Future European Security Architecture discussion panel on October 23, 2023 (2023)

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)