Pawel Maciag

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.

Dr. Maciag is a resident and member of the legendary and prestigious 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 1935 a conference 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.

He was a Polish media United States correspondent since 1999 and attended United States Foreign Press Center briefings. Pawel Maciag also, as an eyewitness, covered the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center for Polsat and the National Polish News Agency – PAP (Polish Press Agency).

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.

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.

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.

Polsat TV Foreign Desk Editor Pawel Maciag in the newsroom of the first independent TV network in Central Europe

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.

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."

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 (Solidarnosc) 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.

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.

He is continuing his active involvement in the local community. Dr. Maciag is 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.

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

• European Union Lawyers
• Polish Press Agency
• member of UNCA
• United Nations Correspondents Association
• sample of an article written by Pawel Maciag
• PSFCU Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union and article wrote by Pawel Maciag about founder member of the PSFCU