Edwin Bendyk is Chairman of the Board of the Stefan Batory Foundation. He is a journalist, writer, and columnist for Polityka, a Polish weekly newspaper, for which he writes about civilisation issues and the relations between science and technology and politics, economy, culture, and social life. The author of many books, he published “In Poland, or Everywhere. An essay on the decline and future of the world’ in 2020. Edwin is the editor and co-author of the final report of the National Foresight Programme Poland 2020, and the author and co-author of several strategic and foresight studies at the urban, regional, and national level.
During the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016, Edwin curated the programme “City of the Future/Laboratory Wrocław.” He was also the co-organiser of the Congress of Culture in 2016 and is a member of the Polish PEN-Club and the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is the winner of many awards, including the Planet Lem Prize in the field of culture, and runs the blog ‘Antymatrix’.