Rafał Kownacki

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Rafał Kownacki (born November 14, 1980 in Ciechanów, Poland) is a Polish human rights activist.

Between 1997 and 1999 he was the chairman of Youth City Council in Ciechanów.

He is a respected lawyer campaigning actively to protect human rights, served as a member of the board in Amnesty International Poland. He is a candidate of AI to European Social and Economic Committee.

Apart from his legal education, he has graduated Human Rights Academy at the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and School of Human Rights at the Centre for American Law of Chicago-Kent College of Law.

He is the member of the Chair of International & EU Law in the Polish Academy of Sciences, specialised in the Common Foreign and Security Policy. He teaches European Law at the Warsaw University.

He is the Polish coordinator of an international academic project WaCoPaS 2008 aimed to prepare deep structural changes in the budget of EU.