Adam Michnik

Adam Michnik "is a well-known dissident, historian, and the founder and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza. During the 80s, he was advisor to the trade union Solidarnosc. He has published widely in a range of international newspapers and has written a number of books including Letters from Prison (1985), La Deuxieme Revolution (1990) and Letters from Freedom (1998). In 2001, he was awarded the Erasmus prize." 


 * Member, International Committee for Democracy in Cuba
 * Advisory Board, Project on Justice in Times of Transition
 * Advisory Board, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter
 * Winner of the 1986 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award
 * International Advisory Board, Journal of Democracy
 * Jury Member, International Film Festival on Human Rights