Dominika Kulczyk

An entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, she is the founder of the Kulczyk Foundation, a private family foundation that addresses “unaddressed” issues - problems that receive too little attention in the public debate and in the activities of official institutions. She currently serves as Chairwoman of the Foundation's Board. For more than a decade of activity, the Foundation has carried out more than 200 aid projects in nearly 70 countries. Patron of the Malta Festival, one of the most important cultural events in Poland, which places special emphasis on topics related to femininity and the challenges faced by women in the modern world. She is a supporter and promoter of the Sustainable Development Goals, established in 2015 by the United Nations (UN). Her great passion, to which she owes her in-depth knowledge of major global issues, has become the production of documentaries. She has shot more than 60 of them, in cooperation with CNN International and TVN Discovery. It was while making them that she got to know victims of injustice and discrimination from around the world, whom the Foundation she runs began to help. In 2018, she was awarded the Order of the Smile for her outstanding contributions to children.

Dominika Kulczyk is a graduate in Sinology from the Department of Oriental Studies, and in Political Sciences from the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. She studied at the university in Shanghai and Beijing University. She also received her post graduate degree in strategic philanthropy organized by the Rockefeller Foundation.