, PhD Konrad Popławski
Project coordinator
Connectivity and Regional Integration Programme
Expert in EU economic development, foreign trade, global value chains, connectivity and international transport corridors. Author of numerous analyses and over a dozen in-depth studies on the economies of Central Europe, Germany and Eurasian transport corridors. Former Head of the Central European Department at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW, 2020–2022); previously a decade-long analyst specialising in the German economy. Currently Project Coordinator for the Connectivity and Regional Integration Programme at OSW. Coordinator and member of multiple international research teams. Co-author of strategic expert reports for Polish government institutions. Organiser of high-level analytical and industry conferences. Regular guest lecturer at leading Polish universities (University of Warsaw, SGH Warsaw School of Economics) and speaker at international conferences (incl. European Parliament). Frequent panellist and commentator in Polish and global media: PAP, Bloomberg, Foreign Affairs, Le Monde, Politico. PhD (with distinction) – Warsaw School of Economics. Dissertation: Changes in Germany’s Foreign Trade after Joining the Eurozone.
Expertise
- EU trade policy, global value chains & connectivity
- Eurasian & global transport corridors
- EU–China relations: economic security & supply chain resilience
- Euro area, German & CEE economies (focus: automotive sector)
- Regional cooperation in CEE (Three Seas Initiative, Visegrad Group, Ukraine)
Major publications
- Turning the tide: the US pushes back against Chinese influence in European ports, [series] OSW Commentaries, OSW, Warsaw (2025)
- Central Europe-East Asia EV Nexus: Tracking Chinese, South Korean and Japanese electric vehicles and battery investments in the V4 countries, (co-author), Central European Institute of Asian Studies (2025)
- A glass half full. Searching for new sources of economic growth in Central Europe (first author), [series] Report OSW, OSW, Warsaw (2024)
- Adolescence is over. Time for updates to the Central European growth model, New Eastern Europe, Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe, Wrocław (2024)
- Unequal competition. The consequences of the liberalisation of EU–Ukraine road carriage for Central Europe, [series] OSW Commentaries, OSW, Warsaw (2024)
- Running on European tracks. Modernising the rail network in western Ukraine during wartime (co-author), [series] OSW Commentaries, OSW, Warsaw (2024)
- Bałtyk jako okno na świat (chapter) [in:] Z. Nowak (red.) Czy morze pomoże. Bałtyk a bezpieczeństwo energetyczne Polski, The Opportunity Institute for Foreign Affairs i Instytut Polityki Energetycznej, Warsaw (2024)
- The Middle Corridor A Eurasian alternative to Russia (first author), [series] Report OSW, OSW, Warsaw (2024)
- Can the global battle for electromobility pose a threat to Central Europe, [series] OSW Commentaries, OSW, Warsaw (2023)
- Russian invasion and COVID-19 – new impulses for development of the Three Seas Initiative, Jagiellonian Club, (2022)
- Future of the EMU: How to make the Eurozone enlargement more attractive- a question of ERM II criteria? [series] AJRC Analyses. Antall József Knowledge Centre. Budapest (2021)
- The single market and Poland's competitiveness: the case of German-Polish economic collaboration (chapter). [in:] A. Visvizi. A. Matysek-Jędrych. K. Mroczek-Dąbrowska. Poland in the Single Market. Politics, economics, the euro. Routledge (2020)
- Building closer connections The Three Seas region as an economic area (co-author). Polish Economic Institute. Warsaw (2020)
- At a crossroads. Crisis in the German automotive industry. [series] OSW Report. Centre for Eastern Studies. Warsaw (2020)
- Monetary Union (chapter). [in:] Common Market as a Common Commitment. Letters to the New EU Leadership 2019-2024. [series] Monographs. Polish Economic Institute. Warsaw (2019)
- Neue Interdependenz Entwicklungsperspektiven für die deutsch-polnische Wirtschaftszusammenarbeit (co-author). Centre for Eastern Studies. Jagiellonian Club. Polish Economic Institute. Warsaw (2019)
- Industry 4.0. Germany's new industrial policy (co-author). [series] OSW Report. Centre for Eastern Studies. Warsaw (2019)
Recent projects
- International research team member – East Asian electric vehicle makers in the V4 countries’ electric vehicle transition (International Visegrad Fund project, 2025)
- International research team member – V4 Industry Decarbonization and the Clean Industry Deal (International Visegrad Fund project, 2025)
- Conceptual lead and co-organiser – Center for Eastern Studies–International Monetary Fund seminar: Quo vadis Central Europe: Reflections on the Future of the Region’s Growth Model, featuring leading Polish economists (2025)
- Conceptual lead and co-organiser – Center for Eastern Studies–Polish Development Bank (BGK) seminar: Chinese EV Investments in Europe – How to attract them on European Terms?, with experts from Poland, France and Italy (2025)
- Editor of the thematic issue of the scientific journal "Political Studies" of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2025)
- Author of the substantive concept and organizer of the study visit of experts to Brussels on the Three Seas Initiative in cooperation with the Research Center for the Three Seas Initiative of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2024)
- Author of the substantive concept and organizer, in cooperation with the Polish Development Bank, of the international expert conference on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Poland's accession to the EU “Next 20 years in the EU: Development Challenges for Central Europe” on 27-28 May 2024 (2024)
- Co-organizer, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, of a side event during the Global Gateway Investors Forum organized by the European Commission entitled Middle Corridor – Eurasian alternative to Russia in Brussels on January 29, 2024 (2023-2024)
- Author of the substantive concept and co-organizer with Europeum of the seminar in Brussels entitiled EVs, subsidies and the future of CEE industry on October 24, 2023 (2023)
- Co-organizer with EGMONT in Brussels of the seminar Ukraine in the Future European Security Architecture discussion panel on October 23, 2023 (2023)