Dorota Simonides

Dorota Elżbieta Simonides is a Polish ethnologist, folklorist, academic lecturer, writer and politician. As a folklorist, she was president of the Polish Ethnological Society from 1999 to 2005 and worked at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, the University of Wrocław and the University of Opole. As a politician, she was elected as a member of parliament to the 8th term of the Sejm of People's Republic of Poland and was also vice-president of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) council in Warsaw.