Since 2020, Michał Dudek has been an Assistant Professor inthe Department of European Integration, Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a Managing Editor of the Village and Agriculture Quarterly. In 2017, Michal Dudek received a PhD in economics from the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics-National Research Institute (IAFE-NRI) in Warsaw. For several years, he worked at the IAFE-NRI at the Department of Social and Regional Policy. He holds a Master’s degree in Sociology (2009) and Political Science (2007) from the University of Warsaw and a postgraduate diploma in Marketing Analysis from the Warsaw School of Economics (2011). His research interests concern various areas linked with rural and agricultural development such as farm succession, human capital, agricultural policy, regional and cohesion policy of the EU and economic sociology.