Vice Rector for Teaching and Student Affairs at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, and Head of the Institute of International Studies (SGH). A graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science and the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, where he also received his doctoral degree. He defended his postdoctoral thesis on „The Middle Kingdom and the New Silk Road: Post-Soviet Central Asia and Xinjiang in the policy of the PRC” [Państwo Środka a Nowy Jedwabny Szlak: Poradziecka Azja Centralna i Xinjiang w polityce ChRL] at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His research focuses on political theory, methodology of sciences and game theory. He is also interested in the ‘grey zone’ in politics, organised crime and terrorism. An author of numerous publications on Central and East Asia.