Andrzej W. Tymowski is director of international programs at the American Council of Learned Societies. These include the African Humanities Program, the Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, the initiative on East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History, the Committees on East European Studies and Language Training, and the concluded Social Science Translation Project.

Tymowski holds a PhD in political science from Yale University, MA degrees in international relations (Yale) and philosophy (Northwestern University), and a BA in classics from John Carroll University. He has taught political science at Emory University and interdisciplinary seminar courses on a variety of topics in Yale College and at the University of Warsaw.

His current interest is the comparative study of academic cultures and its consequences for practice. It is absolutely essential that we understand our globalizing world. But the point is, still, to change it.