Piotr Uhma

President of the Foundation

Piotr Uhma - bio

Doctorate of Laws, Chair of Public International Law, Law School of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Holder of the Postgraduate Diploma of Company Law in the Law School of Warsaw University. 

2004 Masters of Law, Graduated from the Law School of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.
Completed a special course in Law of Public Administration and Corporate Law, with the final paper on „Contracting out procedure as an example of privatisation of state”.

Currently nominated a Senior Good Governance Advisor in the Organization for Security and Co-operation

in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Skopje. From 2012-2014 Senior Human Rights Officer in the OSCE, Mission 

in Kosovo. Previously Director, Legal and Corporate Communications Office of the Polish Electric Power Grid company, PSE Operator S.A. (2008-2010). Consultant and Officer at the OSCE (2004-2008).

Worked on legal and policy issues for the German Development Agency (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit – GTZ GmbH) and UNICEF. Advised the Ministry of Home Affairs of Kenya 

and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of Kosovo. General Rapporteur at the UNDP Training Seminar on National Youth Policy in Central and Eastern African Countries, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

in September 2003. Guest speaker at the Youth Employment Summit (YES) 2nd sitting in Veracruz, Mexico, 2004. Delegate to the YES Summit in Alexandria, Egypt in 2002.

Speaker and participant at many international conferences (including in Prague, Sydney, Jakarta, Strasbourg, Vienna, Amman, Nairobi, Denver, Seoul, etc.). Vice-President of the International Council on National Youth Policy (ICNYP) in Vienna, Austria.