Pawel Maciag

Paweł Maciąg is a university professor, diplomat, lawyer, and journalist. Specializes in international law, international relations, diplomacy, social sciences, and finance. Since 2016 he was a director and member of the Leadership at the Polish-Slavic Federal Credit Union, the largest ethnic financial union in the United States [1].

Paweł Maciąg graduated summa cum laude from prestigious Warsaw University's Department of Law in the Institute of International Law. Ranked as a first from the list of 10 best University's in Poland. In 2009 he obtained a Ph.D. from the very same Institute of International Law. Maciag is the author of three books and hundreds of articles.

Early life[edit]

Maciag was born in Central Europe. He is the son of prominent academics. His father is the university professor and his mother is a retired art teacher.

His relatives from his grandmother’s side emigrated to the United States early XX century. One of three brothers established a well-known suit factory; another became a prosperous farmer; and the third of the siblings, after serving in the U.S. Army, became a priest and long-term pastor of the Polish church in Swedesburg, PA.

In addition, he initiated and built a Polish school and cultural center in the then-vibrant Polish solid community in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Finally, he donated hundreds of Christmas trees to his parishioners every December.[2]

Buck Hill Falls[edit]

Dr. Maciag is a resident and member of the legendary community in historic Buck Hill Falls. Buck Hill Falls's original landscape was created by Frederick Olmstead, the designer of Central Park in Manhattan. The First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt, conducted in Buck Hill Falls a conference in 1935 on the future of housing. Buck Hill Falls hosted the 2001 United States Championships for lawn bowling. The official opening of famous lawn bowling was in 1964 in the presence of Walt Disney.

Career[edit]

He was a Polish media United States correspondent since 1999 and attended United States Foreign Press Center briefings.

Since 2002, for five years, he was the Editor-in-Chief at Super Express USA (the largest and most notable Polish daily newspaper in the United States) with the headquarters in Financial District in downtown Manhattan, New York. Dr. Maciag was the longest-serving editor-in-chief of this newspaper.

In addition, he was a respected member of the United Nations Correspondents Association in New York City which he was a member in good standing. He was also active in many U.N. related charitable events. He was also a member of the Independent Press Association.

Dr. Maciag is a Fellow of the United States Information Agency with a one-year fellowship for professional journalism at Bradley University – at the Global Communications Center in Peoria, Illinois, a Fellow of the New York Times Company Foundation (Institute for the Ethnic Press) in the New York Times headquarters in Manhattan in 2003, a fellow at the Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts in summer 1994 and a Fellow of the Government of Germany in Prien, Bavaria (Bayern).

Dr. Maciag finished a leadership training for editors organized by the Independent Press Association in New York.

Pawel Maciąg started his first journalistic job in 1992 in the Polish Press Agency headquarters in Warsaw, Poland (social and then political desk), while studying law.

Diplomat[edit]

From 2007 until 2011, Maciag was a diplomat at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, D.C. He served as a counselor and press attache.

He was deputy Ambassador to Nigeria, accredited in 9 additional Western African countries (Cameroon, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, Burkina Faso, Liberia). He served as a Consul as well.

President of Poland's website[edit]

Dr. Maciag is a co-author of the concept of the official website of the President of the Republic of Poland [3].

Polsat TV[edit]

In 1993 joined Polsat TV – the largest private television network in Poland and the first such independent television in Central Europe.

He was in a core team of 9 journalists who established the first independent news program in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of communism in Europe.

He served as a reporter and foreign desk editor.

Head of foreign desk. First private, independent television outlet in Central and Eastern Europe.

In 1994 Pawel Maciag was appointed head of the Foreign Desk and prepared and oversaw the production of foreign news for Polsat's main evening info program.

In 1999 he became the first-ever United States correspondent for Polsat TV.

Additionally, he was the author and producer of Polsat's weekly travel program "Polsat worldwide."

Peaceful protests[edit]

As a student, Pawel Maciag was an active supporter and participant of Poland's peaceful protests for democracy.

He led one of the big demonstrations in Warsaw, Poland, with thousands of students participating.

Famous Solidarity (Solidarność) [4] peaceful movement events in 1989/90 in Poland inspired and started domino-like events and democratic change in most former soviet block countries in Eastern and Central Europe.

Thanks to student protests, among others, the peaceful decomposition of Poland's non-democratic regime was followed by a famous tear of the Berlin Wall Fall of the Berlin Wall.

The peaceful transition from a Soviet-style system to a free and democratic country set up to the world an exquisite example of stunning political transformation without any violence.

Eyewitness to 9/11 attacks[edit]

Dr. Maciag was an eyewitness to dramatic 9/11 events.

As a volunteer, he participated in the clean-up efforts on Ground Zero in September and October 2001.

As an eyewitness, Pawel Maciag covered the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center for Polsat and the National Polish News Agency – PAP (Polish Press Agency).

In addition, he helped the sibling of a 9/11 Polish victim’s sibling. He hired her as an aide in the newsroom of Super Express USA, with the headquarters relocated in 2002 to the proximity of Ground Zero at Fulton Street and Broadway (transformed later into an MTA transportation hub). [5].

Director, member of the board of directors of the PSFCU[edit]

After a spectacular and innovative campaign in 2016, dr. Maciag won the seat of a director at the board of directors of the Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union (PSFCU), the largest ethnic credit union in the United States.

As a board member, he was very active and respected in various fields, including creating and managing fellowships for young American students-members of the PSFCU (around 500 000 USD annually) and establishing and managing governance policy. During dr. Pawel Maciag's leadership, the PSFCU achieved a 5-star rating from BauerFinancial, one of the leading independent bank and credit union rating and research firm.

He was a member of the PSFCU’s Fellowship Committee and the head of the governance committee. As the Director of the PSFCU, Maciag was very active and involved in local communities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Chicago, where PSFCU is present. He attended annually dozens of events organized with the financial support of PSFCU, and gained a lot of popularity, thanks to his devotion to helping local communities.

Local community[edit]

He is continuing his active involvement in the local community. Dr. Maciag was an active member of the ConEdison Advisory Community.

He was an approved candidate for the Advisory Council in New York City's Department of Education, the most extensive school system in the United States with over 1.1 million students.

Selected research publications[edit]

Books (Peer-reviewed):

Language As an Important Building Block of Culture. International Law, relations, and beyond. A Case Study of Kratylos by Platon. New York, Warsaw, 2021
Directions of development contemporary international law, Warsaw, 2016
U.N. Security Council Reform. Analysis of the problem in the light of international law. University of Warsaw, 2012

Articles (peer-reviewed):

The Polish legal concept during the interwar period as a circumstance for the international humanitarian law progress. Selected aspects. Gdynia, 2015
Legal framework – an inheritance from the Polish immigrant to the City of New York. Warsaw, 1996
Raphael Lemkin’s “Genocide” in the light of international law, Warsaw, 2006
Brazil, India, Japan, Germany, and the United Nations Security Council reform, Warsaw, 2005

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