Jurand Drop
Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Finance
Jurand Drop
Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of FinanceHe is Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Finance in charge of the Departments of Public Debt, Financial Market Development, Value for Money and Accounting, Guarantee, Economic Policy Support as well as the Legal Department. He supervises the Public Finance Discipline Office, the Accounting Standards Committee and the Polish Agency for Audit Oversight. He is a member of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers and the Government Work Programming Team, and represents the Minister of Finance in the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers. He also serves as the Chief Spokesperson for Public Finance Discipline. In addition, he handles matters arising from the Act on the National Bank of Poland.
In the past, he has held a number of leadership positions, including the role of Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Administration and Digitization, where he was responsible for information and telecommunication policies, cyber security, and e-government.
He has extensive experience in European affairs. In Brussels, he worked as a counsellor at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the European Union and at Directorates-General in positions related to economic reforms and information and communication technologies. During this time, he participated in the process of developing a number of European policies, including the i2010 digital development policy, the Lisbon Strategy, cohesion policy programs and, more recently, in the negotiations on the National Recovery Plan or the European Semester procedure. Among other things, he represented Poland in the Task Force on Greece, dealing with the country’s government-debt crisis.
Jurand Drop is a graduate of International Economic Relations at the Academy of Economics (now the University of Economics) in Cracow. In the past, he taught macroeconomics, mathematical economics and European monetary union at public and private universities.
Jacek Jastrzębski, PhD
Chair of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF)
Jacek Jastrzębski, PhD
Chair of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF)He is one of the leading Polish specialists in law and finance. He has a legal background as a graduate and professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of University of Warsaw, as well as economic background as a graduate of SGH Warsaw School of Economics. He has also completed a prestigious ‘Professional LL.M.’ legal programme at University of California, Berkeley (United States).
He combined his work in banking with his academic and scientific activities. For more than ten years he served as Deputy Director of the Legal Department at Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski. He has been employed as Professor at the Department of Civil Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration at University of Warsaw. In 2017, he was recognised in Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: Central and Eastern Europe, a list of the most influential lawyers in Central and Eastern Europe.
As part of his scientific activity, he deals with civil law, commercial law and financial market law, and he is an author/co-author of more than 80 scientific publications. His PhD and habilitation dissertations have received awards from Państwo i Prawo monthly. He participated, as a speaker and host, in a series of national and international conferences, including events regarding financial market.
The President of the Council of Ministers Mateusz Morawiecki on 24 November 2023 appointed Jacek Jastrzębski, PhD, Professor at the University of Warsaw, for the position of the Chair of the KNF Board for the next term of office.
Krystian Wiercioch
Deputy Chair of the Board
Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF)
Krystian Wiercioch
Deputy Chair of the BoardPolish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF)
He has 23 years of experience in supervisory activities. In 1999–2002, he worked at the Polish Insurance Supervision Authority, where he was responsible for, among others, ongoing supervision of insurance undertakings and performing inspection tasks in the area of valuation of provisions. From 2002, he worked at the Polish Insurance and Pension Funds Supervisory Commission, and from 2006 at the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (UKNF), holding managerial positions in the area of insurance supervision. From 2009, he served as Deputy Director, and then as Director of the Insurance Inspection Department. His responsibilities included planning and conducting inspections at insurance undertakings, insurance distributors and general pension societies. He took part in developing supervisory guidelines and recommendations and conducting pre-application and application processes for internal models of insurance undertakings. From 2020, he was Acting Managing Director of the Insurance Supervision Division, responsible for supervising insurance sector matters related to solvency, risk assessment, licensing and authorisations, and inspections.
From 2014 to 2020, he was the representative of the UKNF at the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS). Since 2021, he has served as member of the supervisory board of the Insurance Guarantee Fund.
He holds a Master’s degree awarded by the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw, where he defended a thesis on the application of mathematics in finance. He has participated in numerous training courses and seminars in the area of insurance and actuarial science.
Michał Ziemiak, PhD
Financial Ombudsman
Michal Ziemiak, PhD
Financial OmbudsmanHas been holding the position of Financial Ombudsman since January 2025. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Civil, Insurance and Medical Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, a member of the Polish branch of the Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances (AIDA), a legal counsel associated in the Regional Chamber of Legal Counsels in Toruń, a consultant and coach advising insurance companies, investment funds, insurance brokers and other financial institutions. He is an author of more than 100 articles, glosses and studies, as well as press publications focusing on civil, insurance, banking, consumer protection and medical law.
Over the period of 12 years has been practicing as a professional legal counsel, he has provided primarily ongoing support to business entities, including insurance intermediaries (brokers and agents), as well as clients of financial market entities concerning, inter alia, loans indexed to/denominated in foreign currencies, compensation payments and other benefits under insurance contracts. He was also issuing opinions on, among other things, growth strategies, draft documents, planned solutions or products, including for financial market entities.
Jan Grzegorz Prądzyński
President of the Polish Chamber of Insurance
Jan Grzegorz Prądzyński
President of the Polish Chamber of InsuranceUntil 2007, he was President of the Management Board of the Polskie Biuro Podróży Orbis Travel (Orbis Travel – Polish Travel Bureau). He was also a Member of Supervisory Boards of Canal Plus Cyfrowy and PBP SA. He was a Member of the Supervisory Board of Robyg SA. He also held managing positions in professional organizations and associations.
He was, inter alia, a Vice President of Polish Association of Tourism, a Member of the French Association of Commerce in Poland, and Vice President of the Board of the Polish Confederation of Private Employers PKPP Tourism in Leviathan. From 1981 to 1998 he lived abroad (in England and France), where he directed transport and tourism companies.
He studied at the School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (now Warsaw School of Economics). Since 1998 he holds the insurance broker licence.
Professor Witold Orłowski
Economist
Professor Witold Orłowski
EconomistProfessor of economic sciences, lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology Business School and the Vistula University of Finance and Business in Warsaw, chief economic advisor to PwC Poland. In the past, he was head of the team of economic advisors to President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, member of the National Development Council advising the President of Poland and the Government Economic Council. He also consulted numerous governments as well as national and international organizations. He authored 15 books and more than 200 scientific publications. He is a popular economic commentator and columnist cooperating with major Polish media outlets.
He is also a book on economics for teenagers, entitled: Economics for the curious, or what the kidnapped professor testified and the nationwide educational project for elementary and high school students launched on the basis thereon - www.porwaniprzezekonomie.pl.
Katarzyna Sekścińska, PhD, Professor at the University of Warsaw
University of Warsaw
Katarzyna Sekścińska, PhD, Professor at the University of Warsaw
University of WarsawShe is a Professor at the University of Warsaw, a psychologist and an economist. She is one of Poland’s most recognized specialists in behavioral finance focusing on the financial habits of Poles. She has conducted more than 150 social surveys. She also offers training sessions, workshops, lectures and conducts coaching programs. She supports organizations in managing change and helps them align their products with customer needs. She has authored more than 50 scientific publications. She is a Board Member at the Academic Association of Economic Psychology. An author and executor of research, R&D, implementation and educational projects carried out in cooperation with key financial institutions in Poland and representatives of the fashion and lifestyle sectors.
Nicolas Jeanmart
Head of Personal & General Insurance
Insurance Europe
Nicolas Jeanmart
Head of Personal & General InsuranceInsurance Europe
As Head of Insurance Europe’s Personal and General Insurance Department, Nicolas Jeanmart contributes to the global and European debates on non-life and life insurance. In recent years, the question of how to reduce insurance protection gaps, notably in the areas of natural catastrophes, pensions, cyber and health, has kept him especially busy; he actively contributed to the protection gaps report of the Global Federation of Insurance Associations (GFIA) and was co-rapporteur of the European Commission’s Climate Resilience Dialogue.
His responsibilities also span motor insurance, access to in-vehicle data, emerging risks, liability insurance, taxation and anti-money laundering (AML). Nicolas is a member of EIOPA’s Occupational Pensions Stakeholder Group and has served on the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on pensions. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum (EPFSF).
Before joining Insurance Europe in 2010, Nicolas led the banking supervision and economic affairs department at the European Savings Banks Group (ESBG) for four years, following several roles within the organisation. Earlier in his career, he provided consultancy and training services, primarily to the financial sector, in Belgium and Luxembourg.
A Belgian-French national, Nicolas holds a master’s degree in business engineering and additional degrees in European integration and development and computer sciences.
Bogdan Benczak
CEO PZU SA
Bogdan Benczak
CEO PZU SAHe is a legal counsel who graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw. He also completed post-graduate studies at the Kraków University of Economics and MBA studies at the University of Gdańsk. He has many years of experience gained while holding positions on supervisory and management boards of various companies in Poland and the Baltic States. He has held key positions in a number of PZU Group entities. From 2008 to 2015, he was CEO of the PZU Foundation and Director of PZU's Foreign Operations Office and Business Development Office (2008-2014). Between 2008 and 2014, he was a Board Member and then CEO of UAB PZU Lietuva. From 2009 to 2017, he was CEO of UAB PZU Lietuva Gyvybes Draudimas, and from 2014 to 2017, CEO of AAS BALTA, simultaneously holding the position of Managing Director in charge of Foreign Operations at PZU SA. Between 2015 and 2017, he was a Board Member at AB Lietuvos Draudimas. Then, from 2018 to 2022, he served as Board Member and CEO of ERGO Insurance SE / ERGO Life Insurance SE. Between 2023 and 2024, he was CEO at ADB Gjensidige Lietuva.
He currently serves as Chairman of The Supervisory Boards of PZU Życie SA, Bank Pekao SA and PZU Health and is a Member of the Supervisory Board of Link4 TU SA and the Audit Committee of the Polish Insurance Association.
Katarzyna Majewska
President of the Management Board
PZU Życie SA
Katarzyna Majewska
President of the Management BoardPZU Życie SA
Effective June 16, 2025, she was appointed to the Management Board of PZU Życie SA. From 2016 to 2025, she served as Vice President of the Management Board of Bank Handlowy w Warszawie SA (Citi Handlowy), where she was responsible for the Operations and Technology Division. She joined the Citi Handlowy team after seven years at the PZU Group, where, as Managing Director, she played a pivotal role in one of the largest transformations of a State Treasury company, focusing on process optimization and driving operational and cost efficiency.
Between 1999 and 2009, she built her professional foundation at Bank Handlowy w Warszawie, holding various positions. From 2017 to 2021, she served as Vice Chair of the Cybersecurity Forum at the Polish Bank Association, actively supporting the development of digital security initiatives across the banking sector.
She is a graduate of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Harvard Business School. She also holds an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management. For her outstanding contribution to the development of the financial sector in Poland, she was honored with the Medal for Long Service awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland in 2022 and the Nicolaus Copernicus Medal of the Polish Bank Association in 2023.
Jarek Bartkiewicz
CEO, Prudential, Poland
Jarek Bartkiewicz
CEO, Prudential, PolandHe is an experienced manager and a figure with reputable position in the insurance market. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Warsaw. He also completed a four-year economics program at Columbia University, managed by the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw. He is also a certified actuary. He has completed numerous training courses focusing on finance, banking and insurance. His professional career has been linked, from its very early stages, with the financial sector. It began with the Pioneer investment fund and continued in TUnŻ PBK. Bartkiewicz's professional path continued at TUnŻ Zurich and then at ING Nationale-Nederlanden, where he spent nine years implementing numerous strategic projects, including those executed outside of Poland. He headed sales and marketing departments at a Spanish ING Group subsidiary. He then moved to the AXA Group, where he served as CEO of Axa Życie for several years. He has worked for the Polish branch of Prudential – a company offering insurance coverage under the Pru brand – for ten years now. In his private life, he is an enthusiast of rock music, skiing, basketball, and Iberian culture.
Dariusz Wołoszka
President of the Management Board
INFO-EKSPERT
Dariusz Wołoszka
President of the Management BoardINFO-EKSPERT
Market analyst and automotive enthusiast with 26 years of experience in the automotive industry. For the past dozen years, he has been responsible for working with insurance and leasing companies, banks, importers and CFMs. He is a residual value expert responsible for market analysis and for the development of residual value forecasting tools. He graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University and Lublin University of Technology (MBA).
Andrzej Sokołowski
President of the Board of the National Association of Private Hospitals
Andrzej Sokołowski
President of the Board of the National Association of Private HospitalsAndrzej Sokołowski is a physician specializing in internal medicine. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical University of Gdańsk. He is Vice President of the Gdańsk Medical Chamber, serving his third term. Sokołowski is a creator and founder of the National Association of Private Hospitals and has been serving as Chairman of the Board of this organization since December 2002. Since 2004, he has been a Member of the Board of the Brussels-based European Union of Private Hospitals (UEHP). He served two terms as secretary and two terms as chairman of the UEHP General Membership Assembly.
Rafał Stankiewicz
Vice President of the Management Board
TUiR Warta SA
Rafał Stankiewicz
Vice President of the Management BoardTUiR Warta SA
He has been the Vice President of the Management Board of TUiR Warta SA since 2011. He is also the Vice President of TUnŻ Warta SA. He is responsible for overseeing the Operations and Claims Handling Division. Previously, he worked for 13 years at PZU SA. During his career, he has been responsible for several successful projects aimed at increasing efficiency and introducing innovations in claims management. Since 2013, he has served as Chairman of the Claims Settlement Committee of the Polish Chamber of Insurance. Since 2016, he has been a Member of the Fund’s Council of the Insurance Guarantee Fund, and since 2020, its Vice Chairman, and since 2025, its Chairman.
Michał Kopyt
Member of the Management Board
PZU Życie SA
Michał Kopyt
Member of the Management BoardPZU Życie SA
Michał Kopyt is an experienced technology leader and digital transformation expert with 17 years of experience in the insurance sector. He has an extensive track record of building and managing IT teams and implementing cutting-edge technological solutions.
Between 2009 and 2016, he held key positions within the PZU Group as IT Transformation Director, where he was responsible for strategic digitalization projects. These included Project Everest—the largest implementation of the Guidewire system in Central and Eastern Europe—which streamlined policy sales and administration. He also spearheaded one of the largest Agile transformations in Poland, successfully integrating IT with business operations and significantly shortening product time-to-market.
In 2016, he joined EY, serving as Executive Director at EY Global Delivery Services, where he established and developed a technology center providing IT services to European insurance and financial firms. From 2019, as a Partner and Technology Consulting Leader at EY Poland, he supported the largest companies in the CEE region in their digitalization and process optimization efforts, collaborating closely with organizations such as PZU. He was responsible for the growth of the technology practice, scaling teams, and deploying innovative IT solutions.
Earlier in his career, he gained experience at technology and consulting firms, delivering projects across the insurance, banking, and telecommunications sectors. As Insurance Practice Leader at Cube ITG, he worked with PZU on implementing new IT management methodologies. At Sygnity and Easy Net S.A., he managed ERP and Oracle EBS system implementations for international clients.
He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw. Privately, he is a husband and father of four, with a passion for sports, psychology, and gaming.
Tomasz Tarkowski
Member of the Management Board
PZU SA and PZU Życie SA
Tomasz Tarkowski
Member of the Management BoardPZU SA and PZU Życie SA
Member of the Management Board of PZU SA and PZU Życie SA supervising the claims handling, fraud prevention, and recovery areas.
He has been with the PZU Group for most of his professional life (1996-2016 and again from 2024). From 2007 to 2011, as a Member of the Board of PZU Ukraine, he was responsible for the area of claims handling, product management and risk assessment. In 2011-2016 in the Management Board of PZU and PZU Życie was in charge of the Claims Handling and Benefits Division. In 2016 he was also CEO of LINK4. In the following years, he worked for ERGO Hestia, then managed ControlExpert Poland, a company providing services and technologies for loss adjustment. From 2022 to 2024 he was a Managing Director at UNIQA TU and UNIQA TU na Życie responsible for the compensation and benefits division.
He graduated from the Faculty of Automotive and Construction Machinery Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Insurance and Banking. He also completed postgraduate studies in Road traffic safety at the Military University of Technology, Economic Insurance at the Cracow University of Economics, Psychology of personnel management at the University of Warsaw and the Advanced Management Program at the IESE Business School.
Andrzej Wasilewski
COO
Allianz Poland
Andrzej Wasilewski
COOAllianz Poland
He joined Allianz Poland Management Board from 1 February 2024 as COO. He has extensive experience in insurance. From 2019 to 2024 he was the Head of VIG Expert, a specialised unit responsible for claims handling and operations for Vienna Insurance Group companies in Poland. Simultaneously, has was Director of Mass Claims Handling at three Polish VIG companies – Compensa, InterRisk and Wiener. Before VIG, he spent 8 years at Aviva Poland as liability underwriting director, systems thinking director and P&C claims handling director. He was also director of claims handling operational centre at PZU, Poland’s largest insurer.
He is a qualified lawyer, since 2016 arbitrator at the Polish Financial Supervision Authority Arbitration Court. Actively engaged in the works of the Polish Chamber of Insurance.
Lukas Kölbl, PhD
Managing Director, AI & Data
Accenture
Lukas Kölbl, PhD
Managing Director, AI & DataAccenture
He is a Managing Director at Accenture within the AI & Data practice. He is responsible for Data Science and AI & Data initiatives for the Financial Services sector across the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region. He possesses extensive experience in both management and expert roles, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, statistical modeling, and decision-making across multiple industries. He holds a PhD in Statistics and Business Mathematics from TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) and is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).
Maciej Rekosz
Insurance Sector Lead
Accenture Poland
Maciej Rekosz
Insurance Sector LeadAccenture Poland
Maciej Rekosz is the Insurance Sector Director at Accenture Poland. For over 20 years, he has supported insurance companies in executing complex business and technology transformations. He specializes in strategy definition and implementation, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), claims management processes, and the launch of new products and business lines.
He is the co-author of the first and second editions of the Digitization of the Polish Insurance Sector reports, developed through a partnership between the Polish Chamber of Insurance and Accenture.
Paweł Czuryło
Managing Editor
Gremi Media
Paweł Czuryło
Managing EditorGremi Media
Paweł Czuryło is the Managing Editor at Gremi Media (publisher of Rzeczpospolita and the Parkiet Stock Market and Investors’ Daily). His previous roles include Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Digital at Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (DGP) and Editor-in-Chief of DGP Infor group websites, Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Interia responsible for the development of the Biznes Interia portal, and Head of the Economic Desk at Rzeczpospolita.
For 25 years, he has been covering the economy and analyzing the impact of politics on financial markets. Privately, he is a longevity enthusiast and an avid runner, gravel cyclist, and dog walker (joined by his companion, Kokos).
Michał Lang
Insurance Business Department
Polish Chamber of Insurance (PIU)
Michał Lang
Insurance Business DepartmentPolish Chamber of Insurance (PIU)
Claims management expert and manager since 1998. He is a graduate of the Opole University of Technology, specializing in Automotive Engineering (Construction and Operation of Motor Vehicles). He holds an MBA from the WSB Merito University in Gdańsk and completed postgraduate studies in Internal Audit at the Kozminski University in Warsaw. He has extensive experience in managing teams of claims adjusters, loss adjusters, and service providers, as well as in controlling claims handling processes.
Agnieszka Dąbrowska
Head of Insurance Business Operations Unit
Polish Chamber of Insurance
Agnieszka Dąbrowska
Head of Insurance Business Operations UnitPolish Chamber of Insurance
She has been working in the insurance sector since 1994. She boasts extensive experience in the adjustment of motor vehicle claims, including those related to accidents abroad. She was also responsible for controlling processes (including quality control) and for designing and implementing systemic solutions. In dealing with the execution of insurance contracts, Ms. Dąbrowska has worked as both an expert and a manager. At the Polish Chamber of Insurance, she is responsible for settling claims, preventing insurance fraud, coordinating activities undertaken by the Claim Adjustment Committee and the Insurance Crime Prevention Committee, as well as for implementing all initiatives related to the above-mentioned areas.
Wojciech Kardyś
Internet communication, digital marketing and personal branding specialist
Wojciech Kardyś
Internet communication, digital marketing and personal branding specialistPhilosopher and screenwriter by profession. Passionate PR specialist, conference speaker, director, marketing consultant, coach and columnist. Lecturer in the field of Trendwatching & Future Studies at the WH AGH in Krakow.
He has been working in Internet advertising for over a decade, and has specialized in influence marketing and video content marketing for six years. Author of the first radio program in Poland entirely devoted to influencers - the Weekly Internet Review and creator of the video-course on Twitter: Twitter Without Secrets.
Co-host of the business video podcast, Kardyś & Foszer and author of a blog about social media and marketing, Netomania. Winner of many industry awards, e.g. the Golden Clips, the CSR Golden Leaf, the EB STARS, and the Force of Attraction, nominee for the 2017 Social Campaign and speaker at Ted Talks.