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Professor Kondratowicz is an economist and Americanist. He is a founding member of the Association of Polish Economists, a member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Forecasting Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also a permanent collaborator the Economic Freedom of the World Network, operating under the auspices of the Fraser Institute (Vancouver, Canada), and an expert at the the Adam Smith Research Centre in Warsaw.

He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a recipient of scholarships from American foundations (the Kosciuszko Foundation and the International Research & Exchanges Board), the NATO, and the Körber-Stiftung and Bosch-Stiftung (Germany). He is an alumnus of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies and a former Visiting Professor at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK.

He has published work on capitalism, economic freedom, government intervention and regulation, and other aspects of institutional economics, including a book Wolność gospodarcza. Pomiar, percepcja, zmiany instytucjonalne [Economic Freedom. Measurement, Perception, Institutional Changes].

At SWPS University he teaches a wide selection of economic subjects, including micro- and macroeconomics, international economics, money and banking, as well as professional English for economists and managers. As a guest lecturer he also teaches on various aspects of the American economy and on international economic sanctions.