Is Managing Director of Polityka Insight as well as journalist and foreign editor of the Polish weekly Polityka. He is member of the Circle of Friends of Das Progressive Zentrum. Wawrizniec Smoczyński was Open Society Fellow (2008), Marshall Memorial Fellow (2009), Munich Young Leader (2010) and IMF Journalism Fellow (2011). A graduate in Egyptology at the University of Warsaw, he also studied General Linguistics and Coptology at the Georg August University Göttingen.