Edwin Bendyk – president of the Stefan Batory Foundation Board, journalist, writer, Polityka weekly columnist. Author of many books, including In Poland, that is – everywhere. On the decline and future of the world (2020). Editor and co-author of the final report of the National Foresight Programme Poland 2020. Member of the Polish PEN Club and the European Council on Foreign Relations. Curator of the programme City of the Future/Laboratorium Wrocław within the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016. Co-organiser of the Congress of Culture (2016). Winner of many awards, including the Planet Lem Prize in the field of culture. He runs the blog Antimatrix.