Tomasz Waśniewski
President of the Foundation
Co-founder of the Social Committee "STOP open pit mine" and the National Coalition "RT-ON". Founder.
Members of the Board
Waldemar Kwaśny
President of the Board
Co-founder of the National Coalition „DY-OPMN" since 2011, one of the initiators of the largest successful, ie. valid and binding local referendum in the history of free Poland against plans to build a lignite mine on the brown coal deposit "Legnica". Local government, former Mayor of rural community Miłkowice, founder of Foundation "DY-OPMN".
Joannę Rogowską
Member of the Board
Members of the Programme Board
Jakub „Kuba” Gogolewski
Member of the Board of the Foundation
An economist who has worked in the international organization CEE Bankwatch Network and with Greenpeace Poland and engaged himself in the Programme for Climate of the Polish Green Network. He specializes in energy investments and their financing and the impact of socio-environmental changes in the energy sector.
Radosław Gawlik
President of the Programme Board
Vice-President of the Coalition "DY-OPMN", president of the Association „EKO-UNIA”.
Bartosz Kwiatkowski
Member of the Program Council
Director of the Frank Bold Foundation. A lawyer by profession, he holds a doctoral degree from the Jagiellonian University and completed his legal apprenticeship at the District Bar Council in Kraków. He specializes in issues related to anti-money laundering and anti-corruption, transparency in legislative processes and lobbying, political party financing, and environmental protection. He is the author of scholarly articles in the fields of law and criminal procedure, as well as analyses and reports concerning political party financing, lobbying transparency, and human rights in business. He has also authored expert opinions on environmental law.
dr Michał Wilczyński
Member of the Program Council
Geologist and ecologist, expert in the field of fuels and energy. From 1991 to 1995, he served as Deputy Minister and Chief Geologist of Poland at the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry. Between 1995 and 2004, he was a member of the Management Board of the EkoFundusz Foundation, responsible for the preparation and oversight of numerous investment projects in the areas of air and climate protection, renewable energy sources, and energy efficiency.
Since 2004, as an independent expert, he has developed environmental investment programs for countries such as Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. He is an expert of the European Economic and Social Committee of the EU and the author of numerous publications on energy resources and mineral resource management policy.
Anna Dziadek
Member of the Program Council
An economist by education and a resident of Lower Lusatia, she is the President of the "NO to Open-Pit Mines" Association. She is actively involved in the Polish-German anti-open-pit mining movement and in promoting citizen-driven distributed energy. She has participated in “star marches” on the German side of the border as well as in Polish-German protests against the Jaenschwalde mine and power plant, and in 2014 took part in the largest international protest in Europe against coal energy — the “Human Chain STOP Open-Pit Mines.”
Magdalena Krysińska-Kałużna
Member of the Program Council
President of the Akcja Konin Association, co-founder and member of the Academy of Democracy, and a lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Wrocław. Her professional work focuses on the anthropology of law and Indigenous communities in Latin America. She is actively involved in pro-environmental initiatives (including at the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center in Łódź and the Municipal Library in Konin). She has taken part in the Camp for the Forest and the Wild Carpathians Initiative, and is engaged in activities related to a just transition in Eastern Greater Poland — including the project “Sustainable Agriculture and Food in the Context of the Energy Transition in Eastern Greater Poland.”
Other Founders
śp. Irena Rogowska
Mayor of the Lubin municipality from 2006 to 2014. Since 2011, she served as Chair of the National Coalition “Development YES – Open-Pit Mines NO.” She was a widely recognized leader of the civic movement opposing brown coal open-pit mines, initially in the Legnica region and later across Poland.
In 2009, she initiated the largest local referendum in the history of democratic Poland against the development of an open-pit mine at the “Legnica” deposit. She co-founded the Civic Committee “Stop Open-Pit Mine” and the RT-ON Coalition. In 2015, she became a founding member and Chair of the Board of the “Development YES – Open-Pit Mines NO” Foundation. She passed away on November 7, 2018.
Janusz Łucki
Vice-President of the Foundation
Spokesman for the Coalition, cultural activist, local government. Founder.
śp. Andrzej Holdenmajer
Local government official, former mayor of the municipality of Ścinawa until 2014. Co-founder of the “Development YES – Open-Pit Mines NO” Foundation and a founding member of the Civic Committee STOP Open-Pit Mine and the National Coalition RT-ON. He was one of the initiators of the largest local referendum in the history of democratic Poland opposing the development of an open-pit mine at the “Legnica” deposit.