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He has 30 years of experience in financial markets. He started his professional career as a broker at the Central Brokerage House of Pekao SA. From 1996, he was involved in investment fund management for 15 years, including 7 years as Director of the Asset Management Department at Pioneer Investments, then the leader of the Polish asset management market. He worked in foreign branches of Pioneer Investments, where he managed funds investing in the markets of Europe, Asia and Africa. At PKO Bank Polski, he is director of the Market Strategy Office. He is also a member of the supervisory board of PKO TFI, the largest investment fund company in Poland managing assets of over PLN 50 billion. and head of the investment committee at the group's insurance companies.

She is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, as well as postgraduate studies in public health, public service and human resources management. She has many years of experience in local government, including serving as Secretary of the Lublin Voivodeship from 2014 to 2018, Director of the Marshal's Office from 2010 to 2014, and has also worked at the Lublin Voivodeship Branch of the National Health Fund and at the Lublin Oncology Centre.

From 2019 to 2024, she served as the Presidential Expert in the Department of the President. She cooperates with many foundations and associations in the city and the province, as well as veteran and patriotic communities. Currently, as Deputy Mayor for Social Affairs, she heads the Social Affairs Department of the Lublin City Hall.

He has been mayor from 2015 to the present. He is involved in representing the hromada internationally to seek partners and donors, with the aim of improving the living conditions of the people of Pervomaia and sharing experiences in the restoration and energy independence of the hromada's critical infrastructure. It contributes to the development of youth and the charitable movement in the community. Its priority tasks include helping the army to achieve a joint victory and improving the social, cultural, industrial and economic development of the Pervomaisk hromada.

Ukrainian from Donetsk, Polish from Wrocław, Master's degree in public law and international relations. Master's student at the Military Academy in the field of ‘National Security’. She runs her own marketing agency halobrands.pl in Wrocław. She has extensive experience in working in the third sector, international projects and business. Since 2002, she has gained professional experience at the UN in Kyiv and the EUBAM mission in Odesa. Since the beginning of 2022, she is the founder of the project ‘Ukrainian Women in Poland’, which turned into a foundation. The main goal of the organisation is the integration of Ukrainian women into Polish society, personal and professional development, as well as the involvement of Ukrainian women in the Polish professional and business environment, including the labour market, through education. Creator of the project Safety360° for Ukrainian refugee women.

Connected with Ukraine since 1987. 1987-92 study in Kyiv as part of student exchange programme delegated from Polish SGGW.

Since 1994 co-founder and director of Bikor, which has been operating in the industrial construction sector in Ukraine until the present day. (Steel structures, industrial anti-corrosion, representative of PGNiG Technologie).

Owner, co-owner of other also non-industrial business initiatives in Ukraine.

Co-founder of the ‘Good Brother’ Foundation treating Ukrainian soldiers since 2014.

Chairman of the board of directors of MSPPU from 2015 to 2023.

Currently vice-president of PUIG, member of the MSPPU board.

Miroslaw Czekaj has extensive, almost 30 years' experience in managing large business entities, including banks and financial institutions.

From 1996 to 1997, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Pomorski Bank Kredytowy in Szczecin, and from 2004 to 2006 he was Vice-President of Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego.

From 2009 to 2016, he was Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PKO Bank Polski and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the bank.

On a number of occasions, he was chairman or member of the supervisory boards of, among others, Miejskie Zakłady Autobusowe, Metro Warszawskie, Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Taksówkowy and the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management.

From January 2007 to April 2024, Miroslaw Czekaj served as Treasurer of the City of Warsaw.

Mirosław Czekaj, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Collegium of Business Administration of the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), where he specialises in scientific issues relating in particular to public finance, including budget planning and financial reporting. He is the author of dozens of publications on these topics in national and international scientific journals.

Mirosław Czekaj is a chartered accountant no. 8476.

Doctor of Law, specialising in administrative law and proceedings, in particular in the law on foreigners. Author of numerous scientific publications in this field. Member of the Refugee Council from 2006-19 and its chairman from 2014-19. Director of the Department of International Affairs and Migration of the Ministry of Interior and Administration since April 2024.

Martine is working on fostering EU-Ukraine business cooperation in the unit in charge of the Industrial Forum, Alliances and Clusters. She is helping Ukrainian SMEs to get familiar with the EU Single Market and encouraging EU companies to invest and do business in Ukraine.

Martine has a university degree from Strasbourg University, France (1985), a BA from Bridgewater College, USA (1986), a Diploma in International Relations from Geneva Institute (1987) and a Master's degree from Paris II University.

Rafał Dutkiewicz graduated from the Wrocław University of Technology, Faculty of Fundamental Technological Problems, major - Applied Mathematics. In 2002 he became the first directly elected mayor of Wrocław. He held office continuously for 4 terms until 2018. As of April 2019, he was in Berlin with the elite Richard von Weizsäcker Academy at the invitation of the Bosch Foundation. He is currently involved with several startups dealing with cutting-edge trends in food production. March 2023. Rafał Dutkiewicz took over as President of the Employers of Poland.

Born in 1976 in Rzeszów. Graduate of the Faculty of Sociology at the Higher School of Pedagogy in Rzeszów.

In 1998-2021, a councillor in the city of Rzeszów. Chairman of the Rzeszów City Council from 2006 to 2010. In 2015, he established the urban movement ‘Rzeszów Smart City’, which has become a promoter of the use of modern technologies in city management. Co-author of the Urban Lab project, an urban laboratory in the centre of Rzeszów.

Mayor of the City of Rzeszów since 13 June 2021.

One of the co-founders and chief engineer of ENFORCE Medical Technologies - the only Polish company and one of five in the world to develop and implement cutting-edge lower limb prosthetic technologies, including a bionic foot prosthesis. Since 2022, it has been involved in helping Ukrainian veterans, providing prostheses to the wounded and training Ukrainian prosthetists in collaboration with Polish specialists. These activities were awarded the Flagship Project title at URC Berlin 2024 for the concept of local prosthetic centres connected into one system using IT tools. He is a graduate of Biomedical Engineering at Poznan University of Technology, where he currently teaches students.

20 years working in the heating industry. Professional.

In his career he has progressed from electrician to TOP manager. Has 10 years of management experience.

Since the start of the war - crisis manager in the field of manoeuvre generation: reconstruction of the company after rocket attacks. As technical director, together with the Company's team, he restored the operation of the power units to pre-war 2014 levels.

Board member, Chief Advocacy and Development Officer, Stefan Batory Foundation.

Member of the Programme Board of the Osiatyński Archive and the Consul Democracy Foundation.

Graduate of the Marshall Memorial, Marcin Król and Recharge Advocacy Rights in Europe programmes.

He is a lawyer, a graduate of the University of Warsaw and specialises in access to public information, re-use of public sector information and the impact of technology on democracy.

He has extensive experience in building relationships between public administration and citizens.

He is the author of publications on transparency, technology, public administration, corruption and public participation.

Ambassador Andrius Kalindra has a long-standing career in diplomatic service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania. Previously he served on the national diplomatic mission to the Russian Federation, the Organization of European Security and Cooperation (OSCE, Austria), and the United Nations (New York, USA), and recently concluded his mission as ambassador to Georgia. 

During his career, Mr. Kalindra contributed to the national and regional foreign and security policy initiatives, holding various positions in national public service, including as Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania. 

Currently, Mr. Kalindra oversees and coordinates national efforts in supporting the recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine, as well as contributes to international efforts to provide all possible support to Ukraine.

Chairwoman of the Krasnokutske village council, Kharkiv region, has 15 years of experience working in local government.

From the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she was actively involved in organising resistance, seeking and attracting humanitarian aid for IDPs and local residents, and assisting the Ukrainian armed forces.

Associated with Zespół Doradców Gospodarczych TOR since 2004, he has worked as an editor, programme director and, finally, vice-president of the management board, overseeing day-to-day operations and development in both the company's advisory and conference-publishing divisions.

Coordinator of cooperation of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship self-government with partners from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and East Asia within the team of the International Cooperation Office of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship Marshal's Office in Poznań. Supervisor of cooperation between the Wielkopolska Region and Kharkiv Oblast.

Graduate of the Institute of International Relations, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, PhD in history (Diplomacy of the Ukrainian State (Transnistrian Ukraine) in 1918). Participant in analytical projects within the teams of the Centre for Eastern Studies in Warsaw and the Natolin European Centre in Warsaw. Author of scientific and analytical publications on Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet area. Co-author and co-implementer of development assistance projects for Eastern Partnership countries.

In 2023, he participated in internship programmes at the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, dealing with the coordination of foreign trade and export development, and at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, where he dealt with economic diplomacy.

Since 2024, he has been coordinating European integration processes within the remit of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, cooperation with international financial and credit institutions (e.g.: EBRD) and Middle East countries.

Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration and the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science at Warsaw University.

He is licensed as a legal advisor and is a member of the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Warsaw. He completed the Executive Master of Administration (EMBA) at Leon Kozminski Academy in Warsaw. Scholarship holder at Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Since 2008, he has been involved in the capital market, particularly in handling investment processes. He has extensive experience in raising capital from private and public investors, structuring transactions and investments, building and maintaining relationships with domestic and foreign investors. He has more than 12 years of experience in the profession of legal counsel. He has provided legal assistance in the areas of commercial law, civil law, industrial property law, copyright law, data protection law and labor law. He has led numerous legal projects on mergers and acquisitions of companies, acquisition and disposal of shares in companies, bond issues, lending, mezannine financing, negotiation of term sheet terms and investment agreements for Venture Capital and Private Equity entities, financing of innovations, implementation or service agreements (in the IT sector).

He also held management and board positions in commercial companies for many years. He participated in the development and updating of the strategic plans of many companies, managed the assets and resources of companies, carried out investment exits, exercised corporate governance over companies, as well as monitored and supported investment and restructuring activities.

He deals with issues related to the provision of timely and convenient quality medical care for the territorial community of the city of Łozów and the implementation of the state policy on health care of the hromada.
He coordinates the work of the communal health care institutions, the founder of which is the municipal council, and contributes to the organisation of their material, technical, personnel and financial facilities.
He develops forecasts for the development of the network of health care facilities in the hromada.
He coordinates the implementation of state programmes in the field of health care, the development of all types of medical care, the improvement of the network of medical facilities of all forms of ownership.

Jacek Kuśmierczyk is an entrepreneur and social activist with extensive experience in the printing industry. As the founder of the Polish Brotherhood of Gutenberg Knights and president of the Polish Chamber of Printing since 2021, he is actively involved in the development of education, entrepreneurship and the promotion of Polish craftsmanship. He supports numerous cultural and educational initiatives by organising charity events, concerts and pro-education projects. He initiated the creation of the Industry Skills Centre in Opole with the aim of improving the vocational training system. For his achievements, he has received, among others, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Gold Medal of Merit awarded by the Chamber of Crafts in Düsseldorf.

Director of the Energy Community Secretariat, an international organization responsible for implementing the Energy Community acquis. These EU-aligned regulations are designed to integrate the energy markets of countries neighbouring the European Union (EU) with the EU’s internal market. A native of Poland, Mr. Lorkowski has a distinguished background in diplomacy and policy, having served as Poland's ambassador to Austria. He also worked as the Special Envoy for Climate at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was the Deputy Director for Energy and Climate Policy and previously EU Sectoral Policies, where he played a key role in Poland's accession to the European Union in 2004.

Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. Registered on the list of legal advisors kept by the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Warsaw, where he served and completed his legal advisor training. Professionally associated with the Export Credit Insurance Corporation for 20 years, since 2017 he has been responsible for the Export Credit Insurance Corporation's business with State Treasury guarantees and leads a team of several dozen people structuring and securing export and pro-export transactions carried out by Polish entrepreneurs, including in particular those related to investment-grade financing in Poland and abroad.

Graduated in geology from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Wrocław. In 1999, he obtained a doctoral degree in technical sciences at the Stanisław Staszic Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Kraków. Geologist, miner, manager with over 30 years of experience in deposit and mining geology (hard coal, lignite, rock salt), company management (mining joint-stock companies) and mining investment process, as well as in geological administration (former Director of the Department of Raw Materials Policy and Analysis in the Ministry of Climate and Environment). He holds numerous professional qualifications and qualification statements (deposit documentation, mining geology, valuation of geological and mining assets, manager of mining plant operations), including since 2022. - with the title of Eurogeologist.

Head of the project office of the All-Ukrainian Association of United Hromads, Director of Busters Consulting Group, Expert on European integration and international fundraising.

Graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków.

Founder of Uniserv SA and the Industry Group.

Member of the governing bodies of organisations: Academic-Economic Association of Metallurgy, Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, Economic Chamber of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Honorary Consul of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Katowice.

Dariusz Nowak, Ph.D., Professor at UEP, Head of the Department of Enterprise Resource Management at the Poznań University of Economics. He is an experienced business practitioner with extensive experience in the industrial spare parts sector. He cooperates as an external expert with many institutions, including NAWA, NCBR, FENG and the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities. He is the author of more than 150 scientific publications in the fields of business management, entrepreneurship, innovation, enterprise resources, competencies (including core competencies), Industry 4.0, work automation and enterprise collaboration. He has been actively involved with universities in Central and Eastern Europe for more than 20 years.
He sits on the editorial boards of international scientific journals such as ‘ВІСНИК’ published by Kamenets-Podilsky Ivan Ohijenko National University, and ‘Economic Bulletin. Series: finance, accounting, taxation’ published by the University of Fiscal Service of Ukraine, as well as the international journal Business Management, published by D.A. Tsenov, Academy of Econikcs, Svisthov.
He is currently implementing a Ukrainian-Polish academic exchange project aimed at activating Ukrainian women in the field of entrepreneurship.

Olga Paliwoda - economist, banker. Born in 1986 in Lviv in a family of Poles from the Eastern Borderlands.

In 2003, she graduated from secondary school No. 99. She graduated from Lviv Higher School of Economics and Tourism, majoring in economics, and received her diploma with honours.

2008 - 2016 r. - worked as an economist and HR manager at the private company Hal-Dar (Lviv, Ukraine).

2016- present - worked as a Polish translator and currently as a Ukrainian-Polish business manager at the Ukrainian-Polish Business Development Centre KredoBank SA (Lviv, Ukraine).

Experienced in conducting trainings for entrepreneurs, export and import consultants, setting up bank accounts for Polish companies in Ukraine, etc.

Fluent in Polish, Ukrainian and Russian.

President of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce on the Polish side, Member of the Polish Parliament for 7 terms of office, served as Minister of Economy in Leszek Miller's government and Minister of Economy and Labour in Marek Belka's government. He was responsible, inter alia, for economic cooperation with foreign countries, regional development, tourism, energy security, restructuring of the mining, metallurgy and arms industries, creating conditions for the development of entrepreneurship and absorption of EU funds. He negotiated with the European Commission the terms of Poland's accession to the EU in the area of competition policy, and headed teams negotiating offset programmes.

Political scientist by education, graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Silesia. Academic teacher, member of the Expert Board of the WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Expert Board of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia and the Polish Economic Society. He managed the Opole and Katowice Branch Offices of the Internal Security Agency, conducted activities in the field of legal and economic consultancy, and is a co-founder of the National Criminal Law Centre. Graduate of the Master of Business Administration postgraduate programme at the WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza, as well as the Internal Security postgraduate programme at the University of Warsaw.

He was appointed President of the Management Board of PGG S.A. on 18 March 2024.

He is responsible for activities related to entrepreneurship promotion, training and internationalisation of SMEs, including projects such as: SME Development Centre (including the e-learning portal ‘PARP Academy’), Enterprise Europe Network, Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, Industry Promotion Programme for the IT/ICT industry and Industry Promotion Programme for Medical Equipment.

He has been an employee of PARP since 2005, initially as a section manager in the Department of Entrepreneurship Promotion, then as a deputy director of the Department, responsible for supervising the preparation and implementation of international projects, including cooperation and assistance projects, and for managing the Agency's international contacts. He has many years of experience in the implementation of international projects and legal practice in foreign law firms. He specialises in international economic promotion, entrepreneurship education and sustainable development issues.

He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw Law, a Doctor of Laws and a legal advisor. He studied at the University of Orléans (France).

Igor Potapov leads Kaiserpfalz Finanzberatung since 2013. The company supports clients with financing of their international endeavours, including export transactions, primarily Ukraine-bound and works with many European industrial customers.

Before that he spent 15 years at different positions at WestLB, including the head of representative office of the bank in Kyiv, Ukraine. During the stint there he completed multiple transactions in various Eastern European countries, e.g. Ukraine, Romania, Slovenia, Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria, Belarus, etc. In addition to the arrangement of syndicated loans and pre-export finance transactions, Igor completed deals that were covered/insured by major Export Credit Agencies, e.g. Hermes, EGAP, SACE, KUKE, Atradius. Part of these transactions obtained Deal of The Year awards from the major specialized finance magazines, e.g. Trade Finance and GTR. Prior to joining WestLB Igor led the tax and finance practices of Baker & McKenzie in Kyiv.

Igor graduated the Economic University in Ukraine (department of economic informatics) with distinction. He also obtained Masters of Finance degree in London Business School. Fluent in English and German.

Manager, capital markets expert and economist with several years of experience in Polish and foreign financial institutions. He has extensive expertise in public and private markets, directly managing or supervising the investment decisions of multi-person investment teams. In his career, he was associated, among others, with Noble Funds TFI, where he was a member of the management board responsible for making investment decisions, and with the WOOD & Company group. He is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics and the Warsaw University of Technology. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) title and an Investment Adviser licence.

Inżynier górniczy. Menedżer z ponad 20-letnim doświadczeniem w zarządzaniu projektami górniczymi i surowcowymi. Od 2010 r. Dyrektor ds. Rozwoju Biznesu w Coal Energy S.A., spółce publicznej notowanej na Giełdzie Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie.

W 2016 r. doradca Ministerstwa Energetyki Ukrainy.

Absolwent Donieckiego Narodowego Uniwersytetu Technicznego.

Graduate of the Stanisław Staszic University of Science and Technology (AGH) in Kraków with a degree in Engineering in Environmental Geophysics and Mining and Geology. He also completed postgraduate studies in Mining Enterprise Value Management at AGH. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Management from WSB Academy with the partnership of EY Academy of Business.

He started his professional career in 2006 as an intern at Lubelski Węgiel ‘Bogdanka’ S.A., to continue it one year later as a shift foreman. From 2010 to 2012, he was employed as a division foreman of the mining division. In 2017, he was entrusted with the position of Manager of the Mining Department, and in 2020, with the position of Deputy Manager of the Mining Plant Operation. From July 2020 until the end of April 2024, he served as a Member of the Supervisory Board of Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka S.A.

Alena Sabelová is State Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister for the Recovery Plan and Knowledge Economy. She has worked in the civil service since 2001, with a short break, in a number of management positions, including in the Ministry of Finance and the Cabinet Office. She also led the process of preparation of the strategic document "Vision and Strategy for the Development of Slovakia until 2030" and represented Slovakia for eight years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development based in London.

Founder of Galoris Ltd.

Head of NGO ‘Successful Nation’

Board member of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, representative of PUIG in Lviv. Representative of the Lviv branch of the NGO ‘People's Anti-Corruption Supervision’.

In 2022 she was listed as a foreign attorney who could practice in Poland (Ukrainian and international law) (Warsaw Bar Association). She is the founder and managing partner of Dictio Law Firm based in Kyiv and member of the Board of Directors Confederation of Builders of Ukraine.

Olena Shtohryn received her law degree in 2007 from Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine, and her Mediation Certificate from the Kyiv Mohyla Business School in 2019. In 2011 Olena Shtohryn was admitted to the Bar: Kyiv Regional Bar Association and Ukrainian National Bar Association. She specializes in real estate and construction as well as dispute resolution. In her work she focuses on pre-trial settlement (including alternative methods) and litigation settlement of all kinds of disputes related to the real estate and construction investments. Her practice area covers due diligence of real estate and unfinished construction projects for the purpose of their acquisition, restoration, reconstruction, and construction completion. Ms Shtohryn advises during signing of the real estate, investment and construction related contracts, including international Polish-Ukrainian infrastructure projects. She also advising on the application of the city-planning, land and land-use legislation.

Recently, Ms Shtohryn deals with changes in real estate and construction law in Ukraine during Martial law.

As the Mayor of Walky, he is committed to the development of the hromada, leading efforts to improve infrastructure and living conditions. His priority task is to implement projects that contribute to the social, cultural and economic development of the territorial community.

It actively works to attract investment, create new jobs and support local businesses. He attaches particular importance to supporting educational, medical and social programmes that are important to the residents of our city. In his work, he is always open to dialogue and cooperation with the public in order to jointly achieve a better future for us all.

In 1994-1997, 2001-2002 and 2003-2005, he served as Secretary and Undersecretary of State, Chief Geologist of the Country in the Ministry responsible for the environment. He was also (1997-2001) director of a department in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland responsible for energy and raw materials security and crisis management. He held management positions at Mostostal Warszawa and the EcoFund Foundation. He was Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs and Scientific Secretary at the Institute of Ceramics and Building Materials.

He was a member of the Supervisory Boards of the companies: KGHM Polska Miedź, Geofizyka Kraków, Petrobaltic, KGHM Metale and Nafta Polska. He chaired the Geological Council of the Minister of the Environment and the Supervisory Board of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. Since 2011, he has been a member of the Expert Database Development Team of the National Centre for Research and Development. He was a member of the Water Management Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Mining Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the editorial boards of journals from the so-called Philadelphia list and the list of the Minister of Science and Higher Education. He serves as chairman of the Earth Resources Management Council, which was appointed by the Minister of Climate and Environment in April 2024. He is vice-chairman of the Committee on Sustainable Development of Mineral Resources Management of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

He is also an associate professor at the University of Warsaw and a researcher at the Faculty of Geology, where he has been head of the Department of Deposit and Economic Geology since 2020. He is the author of approximately 300. scientific publications on economic geology, geological and mining law and deposit geology.

He is responsible for the company's development strategy, financial policy, sales, marketing, organisational and legal issues and the development of the APS Energia Group. In recent years, he has repeatedly participated in trade talks in the former USSR, the United States, Europe and Asia. Co-organiser of many events popularising Polish technical thought.

At BGK since 2018. Currently in the position of Director of the Office for International Partnerships, previously Director of the Office of the BGK Representation in Brussels. Prior to coming to BGK, employee of the Ministry of Economy (from 2014 to 2018, 2nd Secretary of the Economic and Trade Department of the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the EU in Brussels responsible for trade policy, from 2011 to 2014 - responsible for bilateral investment protection agreements and bilateral economic relations with Middle Eastern countries). Graduate of the University of Warsaw and KSAP.

Graduate of the Institute of East Slavonic Philology and the Faculty of Economics of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

Manager, professionally connected with the trade, production and management sectors; for 22 years closely connected with the Ukrainian market, introduced several Polish commercial companies into the Ukrainian market performing management functions in the period 2002-2024.

For 8 years he has been managing Bolix Ukraine Company with offices and warehouses in Kyiv and Lviv. He has been building the distribution of the brand throughout the country, currently bringing together over 40 distributors, and the modern architecture of Ukraine has been enriched with new technologies and hundreds of buildings insulated with professional Bolix construction chemicals.

Since May 2023, he has also held the position of President of the Board of the International Association of Polish Entrepreneurs in Ukraine, which brings together Polish entrepreneurs doing business in Ukraine. The association currently brings together nearly 100 companies with Polish capital operating in the Ukrainian market, with the aim of broadly increasing the volume of trade between Poland and Ukraine.

He participates in numerous congresses, forums and conferences on the topic of rebuilding Ukraine.

Since 2014, i.e. the moment of the aggression against Ukraine, he has been involved in numerous social initiatives to help Ukraine, and has carried out more than 40 humanitarian missions from Kyiv to the frontline areas (Izjum, Kramatorsk, Pokrovsk, etc.) since February 2022.

He deals with the topic of post-war economic reconstruction of Ukraine in the context of trade and business relations with Poland.

Graduate of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, majoring in marketing and management. He has over 20 years of professional experience in the steel and railway industry. For over 15 years he has been the owner and President of Laude Smart Intermodal S.A., and for over 25 years he has been the co-owner and President of ATS S.A.. He is the co-founder of an innovative rail-road intermodal system connecting Eastern European countries, primarily Ukraine, with EU countries. His ideas and inspirations laid the foundations for the design of intermodal containers, one of the most progressive on the logistics market. He is the recipient of numerous awards, which he has received both on behalf of the company and himself.

Graduate of international relations at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, law at Lazarski University and postgraduate MBA - energy and climate policy management at Collegium Civitas in partnership with Paweł Adamowicz Civic Studies.

He completed his doctoral studies. He defended his doctoral thesis in the scientific discipline: legal sciences, entitled. ‘NUTS classification and its significance for European Union law and Polish national law’, at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw.

Author of scientific publications on local government law and regional policy, participant of national and international scientific conferences.

Studied in South Korea, where he completed a six-month Korean language and culture programme at the Korean Language Institute of Yeungnam University.

Participant and graduate of political and social programmes organised by the European Committee of the Regions, the National Democratic Institute and the School of Political Leaders.

Member of the team preparing the opinion of the European Committee of the Regions on the CoR's Recommendations for Local and Regional Authorities on the Successful Development of Regional Development Strategies beyond 2020.

Ambassador of the European Climate Pact. Member of the Mazovian Council for Public Benefit Activity.

He has gained professional experience in government and local self-government administration.

Vice-Chairman of the Polish People's Party in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship and member of the party's General Council.

For years associated with the provincial government - since 2018 as a councillor, since 2023 Vice-Chairman of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship Assembly. Until recently, chairman of the Promotion and Foreign Cooperation Committee. Currently heads the work of the Budget and Finance Committee. Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Law, Self-Government, Security and Public Order.

After graduating from the Khmelnitsky Technological Institute (1991), he worked as an engineer in several commercial enterprises.

Since 1992, he and his partners founded their own private enterprise, and since 1994 I have been engaged in international cargo transport. Today ‘Gilea’ Ltd. operates 65 vehicles (tented and refrigerated). The main direction is the Scandinavian countries. The company also has a production base, a vehicle inspection station, its own warehouses with an area of up to 4,000 square metres in Khmelnitsky. ‘Gilea’ Ltd. has received a number of awards, including the honorary title of the International Union of Road Carriers (IRU) - “Best International Road Carrier of Eurasia 2013”.

He is the first vice-president of the AsMAP Council of Ukraine.

Since 2024 in PAIH (Key Expert, Export Support Department). Previously deputy director in the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Polish-Ukrainian Development Cooperation (2023), specialist in the External Support Department of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister (2022-2023). From 2006 to 2022 he was associated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2006 to 2016 he worked in the positions of cooperation with Poles in Ukraine and political affairs at the General Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Lviv, then employee of the Eastern Department of the MFA (2016-2017) and head of the Consular Department of the Polish Embassy in Vilnius (2017-2021).