Mikołaj Wolanin — born in 2002, student of law at the University of Warsaw and canon law at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Under the 4EU+ alliance's virtual mobility, he remotely attended Charles University in Prague's course during the 2022/2023 academic year. From July to September 2023, he visited the Faculty of Law at the University of Verona (Italy). In March 2024 he pursued a month-long internship at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany), to which 6 to 8 students out of about 200 applicants are invited annually.

Since 2019, president and founder of the Foundation for the Student Rights [Fundacja na rzecz Praw Ucznia] (registrar number: 0000814229), which he founded as a minor thanks to the permission from the family court. Since 2020, chairman of the Main Committee of the Student Rights Knowledge Olympiad; since 2021, observer on behalf of the Foundation to Child Rights Connect in Geneva; and since March 2024, member of the Student Rights and Duties Advisory Team to the Polish Minister of Education.

Graduate of the IInd General Zamoyska and Helena Modrzejewska High School in Poznań with 13 titles of laureate or finalist of national Olympiads, as well as 2 laureate titles of national knowledge contests.

In 2017, the Speaker of the XXIIIrd session of the Children and Youth Sejm [Sejm Dzieci i Młodzieży; Sejm is Polish first parliamentary chamber]. From 2018 to 2022, co-organizer of the Young People's Parliament of the Republic of Poland (in its first edition called the Parliament of Children and Youth, initiated as a result of the cancellation of the XXIVth session of the Children and Youth Sejm in 2018). Founder and former managing editor of the "Gazeta Kongresy" — a youth magazine published monthly.

In every year in which Mikołaj was eligible to apply, he has been awarded the scientific scholarships from the University of Warsaw's Rector and the Minister. In addition, a Rafal Brzoska Foundation scholarship recipient since 2023. In 2020, the only nominee from Poland for the International Children's Peace Prize, and in 2023 the winner of the main prize of the Tadeusz Mazowiecki Warsaw Mayor's Award for Young People Active for Civil Society (one of 3 main prize winners out of 91 nominations).

From February 2022 to June 2023, he worked at the Short-Term Shelter Point for Ukrainian Refugees run by the City of Warsaw — firstly as a volunteer, from May 2022 as a full-time employee of the Warsaw Crisis Intervention Center, mainly on the night shifts (to combine the work with his Foundation and two degrees). The point ended its activity at the end of June 2023 due to the corresponding decision of the Warsaw's City Hall. During its operation it welcomed more than 7,000 people in war crisis.