Analyst for the German economy at the Center for Eastern Studies (OSW) and Professor of Economics at ABiF Vistula in Warsaw. Until September 2021 he led the Weimar Triangle program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), and from 2015-2017 he co-chaired the board of the Polish-German Cooperation Foundation (FWPN). He studied law at the University of Wrocław, and earned his Ph.D. and habilitation degrees in economics at the Wrocław University of Economics. He has lectured at universities in Germany, the USA, South Africa, Canada, South Korea, and India. He specializes in research on the German economy, processes of economic integration in Europe, as well as institutional economics.