Michal Wyrebkowski

Building talent infrastructure in Poland - Bison Fellowship & podcast This is The World | Wharton

Poland

About

Experience

  • Co-Founder at This Is The World
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    Running a tech podcast & building Bison Fellowship

  • Grantee at Cosmos Institute
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    Working on the Platonic Representation Hypothesis, AI safety benchmarks, and unsupervised translation of medieval manuscripts.

  • ReThink.CEE Non-resident Fellow at German Marshall Fund of the United States
    Mar 2023 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • European Research Director at Yale School of Management
    Jan 2022 - May 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    • Led a team of 15 student researchers researching the economic fallout of the Ukraine war. • Consulted the oil price cap mechanism in regular meetings with the Undersecretary of US Treasury. • Built an econometric model of OPEC market reaction to the implementation of price caps using Python. • Modelled Russian oil production linked with oil & gas well flaring using ArcGIS to drive macro insights. • Collaborated with the IMF Russia country team on a new pipeline-flow based gas export model. • Organized quarterly CEO summits and caucuses (>100 Fortune 500 CEOs) handling outreach and logistics. • Created research briefs on industry trends (energy, AI) and corporate profiles (M&As, governance). • Communicated research results to Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal. • Curated a list of companies withdrawing from Russia, catalyzing exodus of over 1,400 multinationals. • Briefed the State Department Chief Economist on a novel input-output sanctions evaluation model • Analyzed cross-border ownership structures, conducting research in French, German, and Russian. • Handled legal correspondence from Big Law firms incl. cease & desist letters to conciliatory conclusion. • Mapped semiconductor supply chain bottlenecks via Import Genius; findings published in Foreign Policy. • Uncovered sanctions violators on field trips in the Caucasus contributing to changes in OFAC.

  • Business Strategy at Qcells North America
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    • Designed market incentive maps for Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) across MISO, CAISO, ERCOT & NYISO. • Developed an industry landscape outlining VPP platform requirements for utilities and solar developers, translating technical needs into actionable product specifications for product managers. • Created a unit economics model to assess financial viability and scalability VPP with Community Choice Aggregators in CAISO, enabling evaluation of RFP bids and verification of cross-team capabilities. • Led the development of data exchange standard strategy leveraging Azure Digital Twin for integration across solar and smart home Original Equipment Manufacturers improving bankability of residential and C&I solar.