Prof. Chilczuk was born on Jan. 18, 1926 in Bohorodyczyn. He graduated from SGPiS (which is today The Warsaw School of Economics) in 1951 and defended his doctoral thesis in the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the University of Warsaw in 1957.  In 1963 he received his habilitation degree from the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he has been a Professor since 1971.

Prof. Chilczuk studied in the United States as a recipient of an Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship in 1967 and London University Queen Mary College.  His academic specialization is regional planning and rural settlements.  He worked for many years in the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has been member of several scientific committees in the PA of S-c and has managed several departments and institutes, among others as vice-director of the Institute of Geography in the Polish Academy of Sciences and as head of the Rural Settlement Department. 

At present he is a lecturer in the Higher School of International Studies in Łódź.

Prof. Chilczuk also served as a Visiting Professor abroad among others at the University of Hokkaido in Japan and Cape Town University in South Africa. In addition from 1974-1984 he served as U.N. advisor and regional planning expert to numerous government administrations, including Iran, Namibia, and Zambia.  In Zambia he served as advisor to President Dr. K. Kaunda and co-authored the United Nations Report NAMIBIA: Perspectives for National Reconstruction and Development.

Prof. Chilczuk is the author of about 150 scientific works, including 17 books.

Since 1993 Prof. Chilczuk has been the Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Liaison Centre for Foreign Graduates of Polish Universities of the University of Łódź.  He actively participated in the Centre's organization of two international conferences of Foreign Graduates of Polish Universities - in Łódź in 1994 and in Cracow in 1996.  He is also chairman of the Program Council for the quarterly journal "KONTAKT", which targets all foreign graduates of Polish universities worldwide.

In addition to his academic activities Prof. Chilczuk is actively engaged in veterans organizations.  From 1997 to 2000 he was a Member of Council of the World Veterans Federation, and during the Federation's 23rd Congress in December 2000 in Paris was elected Chairman of the Working Group on Central and Eastern Europe WVF.

Prof. Chilczuk is the recipient of numerous awards and medals both Polish and foreign, among others he holds an individual Laureate from the Polish Ministry of Education in 1997. He has also been bestowed with the Virtuti Militari Cross, the Cross for Bravery, the Officer's Cross, and the Commander's Polish Renaissance Order. 

His private interests include gardening and international tourism.

Dr. Dinh Dung was born in 1944 in the Nghean area of Vietnam.

Upon finishing high school and completing a preparatory course for foreign studies he was selected by the Vietnamese Ministry of Education to study in Poland commencing in 1965.  In 1971 he completed his higher education studies at the Faculty of Electronics of the Gdansk Technical University.  Upon returning to Vietnam he worked in the Centre for Scientific and Technological Research, and later in the Soviet Union's Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubno outside Moscow.  In the 1980's he was Head of the Laboratory of the Institute of Applied Physics in Hanoi.

Since 1989 Mr. Dinh Dung has been a scientific worker in the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.  He is the author and co-author of many scientific projects and publications in Physics.

Like many of his Vietnamese compatriots Nguyen Dinh Dung is a poetry-lover: he writes his own verses and has translated leading works of Polish poetry into Vietnamese, including poems by Cz. Miłosz, W. Szymborska, and T. Różewicz.  He serves as Chairman of the Vietnamese Poetry Lovers' Club in Poland.