Lidia Makowska (b. 1971), Gdansk/ Poland 
art curator, expert in cultural policies 
Co-founder and director of Association KulturaMiejska /CityCulture, created in 2006 in Gdansk as a self-organized collective of independent thinkers, exploring and seeking for alternative strategies and reflection, how artists and intellectuals could play more active role as protagonists for civic society change, by using socially and politically engaged art practice, research and public debates. 
Co-initiator of Indeks 73, an informal Polish initiative on protecting freedom of artistic expression (guaranteed in the Art. 73 of the Polish Constitution), www.indeks73.pl 
Co-founder of  www.wrzeszcz.info.pl a grass-roots movement for social change and empowering Gdansk citizens for rights to the city.

In 1997-2006 - Head of the International Program in the Baltic Sea Culture Centre in Gdańsk/Poland, realized project e.g.: Baltic Sea Identity Workshop (1998-2002), „artGENDA Hamburg 2002, Grass-Danzig-Gdünsk-Gdańsk (1999-2001), SEAS in the former Gdansk Shipyard (2003-2005), Europe Now/Next within the network www.culturebase.net (2006) 
www.nck.org.pl 
Coordinator of ARS BALTICA  Secretariat in 2004-2009 (a forum for cultural policy and artistic exchange in the Baltic Sea Region).
Since 2002 actively involved as an expert by the application form's evaluation within PHARE program, working for Delegation of the European Commission in Warsaw, PHARE CrossBorder-Co-operation, ZPORR 2.4 (structural funds), EOG-Norwegian Financial Instrument (in 2007-2008). 

In 2004-2006 Board Member of EFAH (European Forum of the Arts and Heritage) in Brussels, nowadays Culture Action Europe, www.cultureactioneurope.org 

Degree in German Philology at Gdansk University (in 1996), studied cultural sciences at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and Universität Bremen in Germany, graduate of European Diploma in Cultural Project Management 1999/2000 organized by Marcel Hicter Foundation in Brussels.