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 causadoctor 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.).
