Wanda Rapaczynski
- Member
Wanda Rapaczynski served as the President of Agora SA since 1998 until her retirement in 2007. Under her leadership, Agora grew into one of the largest and best known media companies in Central and Eastern Europe. After her retirement, Wanda Rapaczynski continued involvement with Agora, serving on the Board of Agora Foundation and advising its Supervisory Board till the day of the election for the position of the member of Agora's Supervisory Board.
During her tenure at Agora, she represented the Company in the European Publishers Council and in the Polish Confederation of Private Employers, serving on its Main Board as well as on the Supervisory Board of Polish Private Media and Advertising Employers.
In 1984, Wanda Rapaczynski joined Citibank NA in New York where she was in charge of new product development until 1992. Between 1980 and 1982 she led a research project at Psychology Department of Yale University and, prior to that, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Educational Testing Service in Princeton. She started her professional career teaching psychology at universities in New York and Connecticut.
In May 2008, she was elected a non-executive member of the Board of Adecco SA, an international recruitment services company registered and listed in Switzerland.
Wanda Rapaczynski serves on the Board of Trustees of Central European University in Budapest and chairs its Audit Committee. She is a member of the International Advisory Council at Brooking Institution in Washington and of President's Council on International Activities at Yale University. She has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 2002.
Wanda Rapaczynski has been honored with numerous Polish and international awards and distinctions. Among others, in FT's ranking Europe's Top 25 Women in Business she placed 5th in 2006, 6th in 2005 and 8th the year before. She was named twice in rankings conducted by the WSJ: in 2002 as one of the 25 most influential women in business in Europe and the prior year as one of the 30 most influential women on the European scene. In 2001, Business Week named her one of its 50 Stars of Europe.
Wanda Rapaczynski was born in 1947 in Poland. In 1977 she received a Ph.D. in Psychology from City University of New York. She is also a graduate of Yale University School of Management from which she received an MPPM degree in 1984.
