or the editor), 60 original articles in scientific journals, five textbooks and 90 research papers and policy projects. Marius-Jan Radlo Marius-Jan Radlo is the VP for Research of the Polish Lisbon Strategy Forum at the Gdańsk Institute for Market Economics and associate professor at the Warsaw School of Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics(2003). He graduated in economics(M.A., 1998) and political science(M.A., 1999) from the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin. He also holds a postgraduate degree in European integration from the National School of Public Administration(Poland) and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration(France). His current research focuses on economic reform processes in the enlarged EU with special respect to fostering economic growth and convergence as well as on the political economy of policy reforms. At his position in the Polish Lisbon Strategy Forum he is responsible for coordination of research activities conducted under the auspices of the Polish Lisbon Strategy Forum. In his current position at the Warsaw School of Economics he deals with economic reform in the EU in a comparative EU-US perspective. Christa Randzio-Plath Christa Randzio-Plath, PhD is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg and at the College of Europe. She also works as an adviser to the European Commission. Professor Randzio-Plath started her career working as an editor, lawyer and tax-lawyer. From 1976 to 1978 she worked in the Council of Europe as a Deputy Chief of Cabinet. From 1989 to 2004 she was a member of the European Parliament where among other commitments she also served as the Speaker of the Socialist Group, Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Monetary Affairs and Chairwoman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Professor Randzio-Plath is active in a number of civil society organisations; since 1984 she has served as President of the Marie-Schlei­Association, a non-governmental organisation giving financial support to women's projects in third world countries. She has published a great number of articles and essays on Europe, Eastern Europe, European Monetary Union, women's policy and development policy. In 2001 she received the PhD h.c. title from the University of Hamburg where she started to teach in 2005. 187