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OUR TEAMWe are a team of approximately 50 full-time and part-time employees, based in our offices and campuses across Europe. In addition, we work with a range of external experts. Our team members have truly diverse backgrounds. Some of us grew up under totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe; others were shaped by the freedom and opportunities of the West. We represent a range of nationalities, with different educational and professional experiences. Our team includes renowned academics and experts in language teaching as well as business people with extensive international experience. Together we share the view that the EU and its continued enlargement has opened up unprecedented opportunities for Europe and for the Europeans. Everyday, although on a small scale, the Paragona team helps to re-shape Europe in a very pragmatic way: we help individuals find and prepare for a job abroad; we assist employers who seek skilled professionals internationally, and we support both parties in integrating well with one another. We feel privileged to affect so many individuals' lives in such a positive way. MANAGEMENT Martin is based in our office in Stockholm, Sweden. Prior to founding Paragona in 2002, Martin worked with the world's largest private educational firm, EF Education. As Executive Vice President for EF English First, Martin was based in Indonesia, Poland and Sweden. Previously, Martin interned at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, UNIDO in Vienna and in the software development sector. Martin holds an MSc degree in Economics and Business. He graduated from Lund University, Sweden. Martin was on a Wallenberg Scholarship at Oxford University, England and on an Erasmus Scholarship at the Vienna School of Economics, Austria.
Sometime after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Adam left academia in Sweden and started a consulting firm in Poland, his native country which he had left 26 years earlier. To date, the consulting firm has assisted hundreds of organizations considering expansion in Poland or Eastern Europe - primarily from the Nordic region. He is the CEO of Ena Ltd, co-owner of the Ena Group and the Chairman of Green Coffee. Adam has been on the board of directors of several companies: Preem Polska Ltd, Stena Line Polska Ltd, Kapp Ahl Polska Ltd, Corporate Express Polska Ltd and The Polish Organization of Oil Industry and Trade. He was also a co-founder of and for many years board member of Kalmena and Medena Ltd. In his capacity as a senior consultant, Adam has also worked with, among others, the following organizations: Skanska, Volvo Truck, The ÅF - group and SAAB Aerospace. Adam has a BSc in Economics, Business Administration and Political Science from Stockholm University, Sweden. He was a lecturer in Political Science, Stockholm University and in studies for Graduate Seminars in Modern Polish History, Uppsala University.
Immediately after graduating from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Kinga - a native of Zakopane - moved to work in Warsaw, initially as a consultant to foreign companies seeking to expand into Poland. She then worked for several years in the oil industry, gaining a thorough knowledge of the business, from exploration, development and refining to logistics through to marketing; she headed the Polish downstream business of Preem, a Saudi oil company with Scandinavian roots. Kinga has been in charge of Paragona's Polish operations ever since the company's establishment. Kinga has a degree in ethnography and has completed courses in business administration. She has also studied theology. BOARD OF ADVISORS Jonas has been part of the Paragona Board of Advisors since the founding of the company. With his experience of having spent over 10 years with Bain & Company, a leading international management consulting firm, Jonas has been a major contributor to the development of Paragona as a company and as an organisation. During his tenure with Bain & Company, Jonas has among other things advised European and US clients on strategy development and led the implementation of operational improvement programs. In addition, Jonas has extensive experience in the Private Equity sector. Jonas holds an MSc degree in Economics and Business in the Stockholm School of Economics. He has also studied on scholarships at HEC in France and Harvard University in the US.
University of Paris Sorbonne, Licence en Sciences Economiques, France, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. PhD Dominique is the Director of the Centre for European Labour Market Studies (CELMS) and Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the School of Economics and Commercial Law, University of Göteborg, Sweden. Dominique has a broad research interest and has published numerous articles on Labour Economics, Industrial Relations and the Economics of Production.
Marcus is Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His primary field of interest includes applied theory and industrial organization. Research topics cover the economics of networks, evolutionary game theory, industrial organization and economics of work organization. Marcus has published several articles in leading academic journals and regularly holds seminars and lectures across the USA and overseas.
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