Dr Agnieszka Łada, a political scientist, is Head of the European Programme and analyst in the Institute of Public Affairs; member of the Group of Civil Advisers of the Head of the Council for Foreign Affairs in the Polish Parliament; Member of Team Europe – a group of experts at the Representation of the European Commission in Poland; Member of the Council of the Polish-German Youth Exchange; member of the Board of Directors of the Policy Association for an Open Society (PASOS); member of the Copernicus Group – a group of experts on Polish-German Relations and IPA’s Representative in the European Policy Institutes Network and Active Citizenship Group at the European Commission. Dr. Łada specialises in the following issues: EU-Institutions (European Parliament and EU-Council Presidency), Polish-German relations and Germany, Polish foreign policy, Eastern Partnership, European civil society and the perception of Poles abroad and of other nations in Poland.