Director for International Relations, SWPS USSH

Marcin Jacoby – sinologist (Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw, 2008), translator and interpreter, cultural manager. From March 2017 Director for International Relations at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, and assistant professor at the Department of East Asian Civilizations. In his current position, Dr. Jacoby is coordinating the Ashoka Journey to Changemaker Campus process, as well as cooperation with Sapir Academic College in Israel in social engagement. Between 2008–2017 Manager of the Asia Program at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and assistant professor at the Sinology Department, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw. From 2002 to 2008 worked at the Oriental Art Department of the National Museum in Warsaw. Specializes in Chinese pre-imperial literature, and Chinese art theory. Author of translations from Chinese classical literature, numerous scholarly and general-reader publications, organizer of over 500 cultural events in Poland and Asia (including large-scale art exhibitions, theatre performances and concerts). Member of editorial board of the “Azja-Pacyfik” yearly, member of the Polish Institute of World Art Studies.