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Jan Świątek graduated from the University of Science and Technology in Krakow in 2010 with a degree in Finance and Management. His master’s thesis was focused on economic inequalities. He also created and provides a course to teach Polish to foreigners. He worked as a teacher for couple of years, teaching, among others, refugees from Donbas (Ukraine) in 2015. Since 2015, he has been working for ATD Fourth World – International Movement, which aims at erradicate extreme poverty as well as for the dignity and human rights for people with direct experience of poverty. He has spent most of his life in Poland, but also lived abroad: Brazil (4 months), Spain (2.5 years) and in France, where he’s been based since June 2024 (and previosuly spent one year from 2008 to 2009). He has been working in the role of international advocacy officer since October 2022.
Updated June 2024