Assistant professor at EUROREG – Centre for European Regional and Local Studies at the University of Warsaw. His doctoral thesis (2016) focused on the usefulness and application of cohesion policy programme evaluations.
In 2004–2010, he worked at the Regional Development Department of the Marshal's Office of the Silesian Province, where, as deputy director of the department, he was responsible, among other things, for creating and managing the evaluation unit.
Since 2010, he has been working as an independent evaluator. He has led or participated as a team member in the implementation of several dozen evaluation, research and consulting projects commissioned by, among others, the European Parliament and the European Commission, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, the Ministries of Regional Development, Science and Higher Education, Agriculture and Rural Development, the National Centre for Research and Development, the National Science Centre, the Foundation for Polish Science, and most provincial governments.
His research focuses mainly on the use of evaluation findings, the functioning of evaluation and monitoring systems, knowledge brokering as a theoretical basis for the functioning of evaluation units, and the development of evaluation culture and practice in Poland. He is the author and co-author of several dozen publications on evaluation (profiles: Google Scholar, ResearchGate, ORCID). He has presented papers on evaluation research at international conferences, including EGPA, IPPA, and IRSPM.
In the area of teaching and training, he has been conducting classes on public policy evaluation methods for students of EUROREG and the Faculty of Sociology and the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw for several years. In addition, he has taught classes as part of the postgraduate programme at the Academy of Evaluation, workshops on knowledge brokering (NEC UNDP), and classes as part of the Academy of Regulatory Impact Assessment.
He is involved in the development of evaluation practice in Poland, including the preparation of guidelines for the evaluation of cohesion policy, co-editing and authoring an evaluation guide, and co-authoring an expert opinion on the implementation of evaluation in the light of the Public Procurement Law.
He has been a member of PES for several years and has participated in many of the Society's activities, including: preparing the description of the ‘Conducting Evaluation’ qualification for the purposes of the ZSK, conference presentations on the professionalisation of evaluation, and research on the state of evaluation in Polish local governments as part of the Evaluation Think Tank project.
He is the editor-in-chief of the Polish Evaluation Review published by PES, and also manages the PES blog.
