Luiza Bednarowska-Kopyść
Head of the Insurance Product Development department at KUKE
Luiza Bednarowska-Kopyść
Head of the Insurance Product Development department at KUKEShe is responsible for
the development of product offerings for new and existing customers. Luiza has many years of experience
gained at institutions in the financial and consulting sector (including KUKE, PZU, PricewaterhouseCoopers).
She holds a degree in economics with a specialisation in finance and a post-graduate degree in management
from the Warsaw School of Economics. He is also a certified business trainer. He is also a certified
business trainer. She is a graduate of the MBA Management programme at the R. Łazarski University of
Commerce and Law. Her life motto is an aphorism of A. Einstein “Everyone knew it was impossible, until a
fool who didn't know came along and did it.”
Karen Coleman
Editor of EuroParlRadio
Karen Coleman
Editor of EuroParlRadioEditor of EuroParlRadio
which covers stories from the European Parliament. Karen has moderated a significant array of events over
the years including major international conferences for clients such as the EU Commission, European
Parliament, European businesses, Finance and Insurance companies, journalism and environmental
organisations, NGOs, etc.
Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska
Director of the Institute of Enterprise at Warsaw School of Economics
Prof. Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska
Director of the Institute of Enterprise at Warsaw School of EconomicsProf. Hanna
Godlewska-Majkowsk
is Professor of Economics and Lecturer at the Department of Entrepreneurship and Business Environment and
Director of the Institute of Enterprise at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH).
She is also the SGH Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment. In 2016-2020, Professor
Godlewska-Majkowska was SGH Vice-Rector for Cooperation with the Environment.
She currently specialises in research on smart organisations in local governments and companies. She has
conducted long-term research on business location, local and regional entrepreneurship and the investment
attractiveness of regions. The professor is the author of over 200 publications. She has supervised the
training of 6 doctoral students who have successfully passed their doctoral examinations.
Since 2008, the research conducted by Prof Godlewska-Majkowska and her team has formed the basis for the
preparation of reports on the investment attractiveness of Polish provinces, districts and municipalities
commissioned by the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency (PAIH), as well as for the annual Gmina
na 5! (A-level Municipality!) report.
Petra Hielkema
Chairperson of EIOPA
Petra Hielkema
Chairperson of EIOPAPetra is the Chairperson
of EIOPA and has been leading the Authority since September 2021, following her appointment by the Council
on 27 May 2021 after confirmation by the European Parliament on 18 May 2021.
Petra is also member of the ESRB Steering Committee and the ESRB General Board and a voting member of the
IAIS Executive Committee. Besides that she is the Champion of the IAIS Fintech Forum.
Prior to this role Petra was Division Director of Insurance Supervision at De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB, the
Dutch Central Bank). Petra joined DNB in February 2007 as a policy advisor, contributing to the development
of Solvency II. In 2013 she became Head Insurance Policy and in 2015 she was appointed as Head of the DNB
Expert Center for Fit & Proper assessments. In February 2017 Petra started as Director of Payments and
Market. Prior to joining the Dutch Central Bank Petra had an international career as a financial advisor to
emerging economies.
Prior to being appointed as EIOPA Chairperson Petra was an Alternate Member of the EIOPA Board of
Supervisors. She was also the Chair of the EIOPA Policy Committee. Before that she participated in several
EIOPA and CEIOPS working groups and fulfilled some international roles including Chair of the FSB fmiCBCM
(recovery & resolution for CCPs), member of the BIS Committee for Payments and Market Infrastructures,
member of the ECB Market Infrastructures Board, and member of the IAIS Technical Committee.
Petra has a European Masters in Law & Economics and a Masters in Russian Studies. She is married and proud
mother of three children.
Jacek Jastrzębski PhD
Chair of the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority
Jacek Jastrzębski PhD
Chair of the Polish Financial Supervisory AuthorityJacek Jastrzębski is one
of Poland's leading specialists in law and finance. He has a legal and economic
background as a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw and
the Warsaw School of Economics. He also obtained an LL.M. degree from the University of California,
Berkeley (United States).
Jacek Jastrzębski is a professor at the Department of Civil Law of the Faculty of Law and
Administration at the University of Warsaw.
His academic interests include civil law, commercial law and the law of financial markets. Jacek
Jastrzębski is the author and a co-author of more than 80 scientific papers.
On 23 November 2018, he was appointed Chair of the Board of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority.
Rafał Mańkowski
Director of Non-Life Insurance at the Polish Chamber of Insurance.
Rafał Mańkowski
Director of Non-Life Insurance at the Polish Chamber of InsuranceHe is a graduate of the
Wrocław University of Economics and completed a postgraduate degree in EU law at the University of Warsaw
and a project management programme at the Warsaw School of Economics. Rafał has many years of experience in
underwriting and managing non-life portfolios of insurance companies. He has been working at the Polish
Insurance Chamber as an expert for eight years. At PIU, he is responsible for non-life, agricultural,
financial, reinsurance and risk management insurance. He has been a consultant at workshops on risk
management and data quality in catastrophe insurance organised by the European Commission and reinsurance
brokers, among others. He has been a POLRISK-certified risk manager since 2011.
Didier Millerot
Head of the Insurance and Pensions Unit of the European Commission
Didier Millerot
Head of the Insurance and Pensions Unit of the European CommissionDidier is a lawyer with
a Private law degree from the University of Lille and a post-graduate in EU law from the Université Libre de
Bruxelles. Didier started his career in the Commission in 1994, dealing with international relations in the
social field. He moved to DG MARKT end of 1997 where he occupied different positions. Didier became Head of
the Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit in July 2012 in DG FISMA. He then moved to the Banking and
Financial Conglomerates Unit in 2015 a time during which the Investment Firms review and the Covered Bonds
initiative were adopted. Didier then became the Head of the Insurance and Pensions Unit in April 2019, in
charge of the Solvency II review inter alia.
Sylwia Nowak
Strategic Customer Relations Expert, BIK group
Sylwia Nowak
Strategic Customer Relations Expert, BIK groupPreviously associated
with the insurance industry, for over 8 years she has been supporting corporations, including insurance
companies, in verifying client credibility and reducing the risk of service fraud. She collaborates in the
implementation of BIK blockchain technology, which is used to build the security of clients' personal data.
She promotes this innovation among corporate clients.
Marcin Piątkowski PhD
professor at Leon Koźmiński University in Warsaw and lead economist at the World Bank in Washington DC.
Marcin Piątkowski PhD
professor at Leon Koźmiński University in Warsaw and lead economist at the World Bank in Washington DCMarcin Piątkowski PhD is
a professor at Leon Koźmiński University in Warsaw and lead economist at the World Bank in Washington DC. He
was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, London Business School and OECD Development Center. He was a
visiting scholar at Harvard University, London Business School and OECD Development Center, and worked as
Chief Economist of PKO BP, economist in the European Department of the Washington-based International
Monetary Fund and Advisor to IMF's Executive Director. He also served as an advisor to Poland's Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Finance. Marcin Piątkowski is the author of Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from
the Economic Rise of Poland, a book published by Oxford University Press in 2018, which was awarded the Best
Economics Book 2019 prize by the Polish Academy of Sciences and named the best book promoting economic
knowledge in 2020 in the Economicus competition organised by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. It was reviewed and
endorsed by the Financial Times and the world's leading economists. He won the Economist of the Year 2023
award granted by the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers (ZPP). For more information, visit
www.marcinpiatkowski.com and follow him on Twitter (@mmpiatkowski).
Sławomir Pomarański
after. Director of the Insurance Inspection Department, UKNF
Sławomir Pomarański
after. Director of the Insurance Inspection Department, UKNFConnected with the
financial market since his student days. He started working at the Brokerage House of the Bank of Energy SA.
Later, he moved to supervision, where he continues his professional activity.
A member of expert groups at EIOPA and IOPS. A participant in exchanges between financial supervisory
authorities within the European Union, as well as assistance programs for supervisory authorities outside
the European Union.
A graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin with a degree in law, and of postgraduate studies in finance
and management organized by the University of Warsaw, the Leon Koźmiński Academy, and the Polish Bank
Association.
Prof. Brian Porter-Szűcs
Professor at University of Michigan
Prof. Brian Porter-Szűcs
Professor at University of MichiganBrian Porter-Szűcs has
been a professor of history at the University of Michigan since 1994, where he teaches the history of
economics, the intellectual history of capitalism and socialism, the history of Catholicism and the history
of Poland. Several of his books have been published in Polish: Wiara i Ojczyzna: Katolicyzm, nowoczesność i
Polska (original title: Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland) (Filtry Publishing House,
2022); Całkiem zwyczajny kraj: Historia Polski bez martyrologii (original title: Poland Beyond Martyrdom)
(Filtry Publishing House, 2021); and Gdy nacjonalizm zaczął nienawidzić: Wyobrażenia nowoczesnej polityki w
dziewiętnastowiecznej Polsce (original title: When Nationalism Began to Hate) (Pogranicze Publishing House,
2011). He first visited Poland in 1986-1988 for two years and has returned almost every year since then. He
publishes a bilingual, weekly newsletter entitled Polish Polemics at https://porterszucs.substack.com.
Jan Grzegorz Prądzyński
President of the Polish Chamber of Insurance
Jan Grzegorz Prądzyński
President of the Polish Chamber of InsurancePresident of the Polish
Chamber of Insurance
Until 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.
Jan Grzegorz Prądzyński studied at the School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (now Warsaw School of
Economics). Since 1998 he holds the insurance broker licence.
prof. Aleksandra Przegalińska
Professor, philosopher, researcher of humanoid artificial intelligence
prof. Aleksandra Przegalińska
Professor, philosopher, researcher of humanoid artificial intelligenceAleksandra Przegalińska
is a university professor and philosopher. She studies the development of humanoid artificial intelligence,
bots and social robots. She is also Vice-Rector for International Cooperation and ESR at Leon Koźmiński
University and a member of the supervisory boards of Millennium Bank Hipoteczny and Escola S.A.
She is co-author of the book AI w strategii. Rewolucja sztucznej inteligencji w zarządzaniu (AI in strategy.
The artificial intelligence revolution in management).
dr Marek Rozkrut
EY Partner and EU & CESA Chief Economist
dr Marek Rozkrut
EY Partner and EU & CESA Chief EconomistEY Partner and EU & CESA
Chief Economist
Head of the EY EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India, Africa) Economists Unit
Marek Rozkrut is a Partner at Ernst & Young, EY EU and Central and South Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Chief Economist and Head of the EY EMEIA Economists Unit. Among other things, he specialises in
macroeconomic and sectoral analyses and forecasts, impact assessments of regulatory measures, studies on the
shadow economy and the tax gap. Marek supervised hundreds of projects implemented in approx. 50 countries.
He also leads the EY Effective State Programme.
In 2012-2015, Marek was an assistant professor at the Department of international Finance of the Warsaw
School of Economics.
In 2009-2012, he was Director of Financial Policy, Analyses and Statistics Department at the Ministry of
Finance. He led the Polish delegation at the OECD Economic Policy Committee and chaired the
Inter-institutional Working Group on Macroeconomic Affairs. He is one of the creators of the concept of
stabilizing expenditure rule.
From 2002 to 2009, he worked at the National Bank of Poland, first in the Macroeconomic and Structural
Analysis Department and later as head of the Foreign Research and Analysis Team.
Paweł Szczepankowski
Managing director at Atradius.
Paweł Szczepankowski
Managing director at AtradiusPaweł Szczepankowski has
more than twenty-five years of experience in financial insurance, particularly in the area of commercial
credit and insurance guarantees, which he gained at the Polish Reinsurance Society, TU Allianz Polska and
Gerling Polska. He has been the Managing Director of the Polish branch of Atradius since July 2008.
Paweł is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics and the Faculty of Law at Kozminski University. He
participated in the Manager Development Programme of the Atradius Academy at the Rotterdam School of
Management and the SGMI Management Institute St. Gallen Business Strategy Certificate Programme. Since 2017,
he has been the Chairman of the Receivables Insurance Subcommittee at the Polish Chamber of Insurance. An
alpine ski instructor.
Tomasz Tarkowski
Managing director at and TU oraz UNIQA TU na Życie SA
Tomasz Tarkowski
Managing director at UNIQA TU and UNIQA TU na Życie SATomasz Tarkowski is
Managing Director, Claims and Compensation Area, at UNIQA TU and UNIQA TU na Życie S.A.
In 1996-2016, he worked for the PZU Group. As a member of the Management Board of PZU Ukraine from
2007-2011, he was responsible for claims processing, product management and risk assessment. He later joined
the boards of PZU and PZU Życie and headed the Claims and Compensation area. In 2016, he was also the
President of the Management Board of LINK4. In the following years, he worked for ERGO Hestia, among others,
where he was responsible for the implementation of modern solutions in claims settlement. He then headed
ControlExpert Polska, a company offering services and technologies for claims settlement.
A graduate of the Faculty of Automotive and Construction Machinery Engineering at the Warsaw University of
Technology and of the Warsaw School of Insurance and Banking. Tomasz also completed the postgraduate studies
in road traffic safety at the Military University of Technology, a course in business insurance at the
University of Economics in Kraków, the programme Psychology of Personnel Management at the University of
Warsaw, and also the Advanced Management Program at IESE Business School.
Prof. Paweł Wajda
Member of the Management Board, System Ochrony Banków Komercyjnych S.A. (SOBK)
Prof. Paweł Wajda
Member of the Management Board, System Ochrony Banków Komercyjnych S.A. (SOBK)Paweł Wajda is a
professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in the Department of Law and
Administrative Procedure. He also teaches several postgraduate courses at the Warsaw School of Economics,
the university from which he graduated in finance and banking.
Paweł is a member of the Management Board of System Ochrony Banków Komercyjnych S.A., a company acting as an
essential element of the security network for the banking market established by the 8 largest banks in
Poland under Chapter 10a of the Banking Act of 29 August 1997. Together with the Bank Guarantee Fund, System
Ochrony Banków Komercyjnych S.A. was established to implement the resolution procedure of Getin Noble Bank
S.A., which is considered to be the largest and most efficiently perfomed resolution process on the single
financial market.
Paweł Wajda is a lawyer with more than ten years of international experience, currently leading the
financial regulated markets (FIS) team at CMS CAMERON MCKENNA NABARRO OLSWANG LLP. His professional practise
focuses on regulatory issues, banking law, insurance law, capital markets law, administrative law,
administrative procedure and proceedings before administrative courts. He advises financial institutions on
regulatory and compliance issues and represents financial institutions in proceedings before administrative
authorities and administrative courts.
Paweł's experience includes representation of customers in proceedings before regulatory authorities such as
the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority, the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer
Protection, the EBA, EIOPA ESMA and European Commission. He is also responsible for the implementation and
transposition of EU law. Paweł is a legal expert of the Polish Chamber of Insurance.
He has frequently been involved in the various stages of the legislative process, from the preparation of
the concept or draft explanatory memorandum for a law to the assessment of the proposed regulations.
Paweł Wajda has led legal teams for some of the largest transactions in the financial market, such as
mergers and acquisitions, carve-out transactions, loan financings (including LMA/ZBP financings), syndicated
financings, etc.
He is the author of over 200 academic papers, mainly on financial markets regulation.
Paweł has many years of experience working in and for the boards of corporations, including public
companies.
Krystian Wiercioch
Deputy Chair of PFSA Board
Krystian Wiercioch
Deputy Chair of PFSA BoardKrystian Wiercioch has
23 years of experience in supervisory activities. From 1999 to 2002, he
worked at the State Insurance Supervisory Authority, where he was responsible, among other things,
for the day-to-day supervision of insurance undertakings and the monitoring of reserve valuation.
Since 2002, Krystian Wiercioch has been employed by the Insurance and Pension Funds Supervisory
Commission and, since 2006, by the Office of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (OPFSA) as a
senior manager in charge of supervision of the insurance sector. Since 2009, he served as Deputy
Director, and later Director, of the Insurance Inspections Department. His responsibilities included
the planning and implementation of audits of insurance undertakings, insurance distributors and
General Pension Societies. Krystian Wiercioch was involved in the preparation of supervisory
guidelines and recommendations and in leading the pre-application and application processes of
captive insurance undertakings. In 2020, he was appointed Acting Managing Director of the
Insurance Supervision Division, where he oversaw the solvency of the insurance sector, risk
assessment, licensing, as well as authorisation and inspection procedures. In 2014-2020, he was the
OPFSA representative in the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS). Krystian
Wiercioch has been serving as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Insurance Guarantee Fund
since 2021. A graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of the University of
Warsaw, he defended a dissertation on the application of mathematics in finance. Krystian Wiercioch
completed many courses, workshops and seminars on insurance and actuarial science.
Andrzej Wasilewski
Andrzej Wasilewski is President of the Management Board of Spółdzielnia Usługowa VIG Ekspert
Andrzej Wasilewski
Andrzej Wasilewski is President of the Management Board of Spółdzielnia Usługowa VIG EkspertAn attorney by
profession, he is an arbitrator of the Arbitration Court at the Polish Financial Supervision Authority and a
member of the Claims Settlement Committee of the Polish Chamber of Insurance. Andrzej is working on projects
to standardise claims settlement and engage market participants in structuring and developing processes. In
his career spanning more than 20 years, he has held various roles dealing with claims settlement, products,
underwriting and transformation, working for leading insurance groups PZU, Ergo Hestia, Aviva and Vienna
Insurance Group. He currently works for the Allianz Group.
Jacek Żakowski
Editor
Jacek Żakowski
EditorJacek Żakowski is a
columnist of Polityka and Gazeta Wyborcza, head of the Chair of Journalism at the Collegium Civitas, leader
of the “Embassy” of Concilium Civitas and editor of its Almanac. An author of TOK FM’s Friday morning
programme, he has developed several radio and television formats. He is the author of many books, most
recently Wirus 2020 (SIC! publishing house, 2020). Jacek was named Journalist of the Year in 1997 and has
received awards such as the Superwiktor, Wiktor (twice), the PEN Club Award, the Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski Award
and the Malta Neon Festival. A member of the Polish Society of Journalists.