Board of Trustees

Board of Directors

Executive Board

The Council of Directors of Regional Centres and Rectors of Colleges of Public Administration established by FSLD performs the advisory function.

Prof. Jerzy Regulski, President of the Foundation in Support of Local Democracy till present, is also one of its founders. He is recognized as one of the founding fathers of the local government in the Polish 3rd Republic. Joined by a team of collaborators, he published the guidelines of the local government reform in 1981.

He co-presided the local government team during Round Table negotiations in 1989. Elected to the Senate, he chaired the Senate Local Government Committee, and later coordinated the implementation of the local government reform as the Government Representative Responsible for the Local Government Reform.
In 1992-1997, he was the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
In 1998-1999, he was the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Council for the Reform of the System of the State.

Prof. Jerzy Regulski is an outstanding expert in local government and urban planning. He graduated from the Engineering Faculty of the Warsaw University of Technology and from the Paris-based Centre de Recherche d'Urbanisme. He has obtained the title of full professor in technical sciences and that of full professor in economic sciences.

He has published over 200 books and dissertations, and lectured at 78 universities.
He is a honoris causa doctor of the University of Łódź and of the Danish University of Roskilde.

He was awarded with the medal of the National Assembly of the Local Government (1994), with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland (1999).
He has also obtained the Grzegorz Palka Award for his merits to the local government, and a special award of Polish associations of the local government for the execution of the reform of the system of the State (2000 r.).