Organizer:

Speakers

prof. dr hab. Witold Abramowicz

prof. dr hab. Witold Abramowicz

Poznan University of Economics and Business

Advisor to the Rector of the Poznań University of Economics and Business on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation.

Mariusz Adamiak

Mariusz Adamiak

Director of the Market Strategy Office at PKO BP

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.

Ayhan Akbaba

Ayhan Akbaba

Board Member of the Turkish Ukrainian Businessmen Association

Graduated from Baskent University international trade department. More than 15 years global professional experience in Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, China and Greece.
Founded CD GROUP company in 2019 in the fields of logistics, custom services, agriculture, renewable energy and investment consultancy. CD GROUP performs in Ukraine, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania.
Ayhan Akbaba has been a Board Member of the Turkish Ukrainian Businessmen Association since 2017. World Turkish Business Council (DTİK) Ukraine Country Rep. since 2021 and Chairman of the Eurasia Regional Committee as of September 2023.

Anna Augustyniak

Anna Augustyniak

Deputy Mayor for Social Affairs at the Lublin City Hall

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.

Bartłomiej Babuśka

Bartłomiej Babuśka

President of the Management Board of the Upper Silesian Fund S.A. in Katowice

Economist, entrepreneur, experienced manager, social and local government activist.

In 2015 he took up the post of Honorary Consul of Ukraine in Tarnow and at the same time President of the Board of the Polish-Ukrainian Aid and Development Institute.

He currently serves as the President of the Upper Silesian Fund S.A. in Katowice.

Councillor of the Tarnów City Council from 2002 to 2015, Chairman of the Economic Committee of the Tarnów City Council from 2006 to 2013.

He started his managerial work in 2001 as President of the Management Board of Tarnów Window Factory Oknotar Sp. z o.o., then from 2003 to 2005 he managed the hotel company OHW Sp. z o.o. in Tarnów as President of the Management Board.

From 2009 to 2010, he served as President of the Management Board of Fabios S.A., based in Białka, cooperating with the Ministry of the Treasury on the privatisation of the company. In 2011, he became President of the Management Board of Małopolskie Centrum Biotechniki Sp. z o.o. in Krasne, a position he held until 2012. Following the privatisation of MCB Sp. z o.o. in 2012, he started working as President of the Management Board of PRZ S.A. in Kraków, a company he managed until 2015.

He served on the supervisory boards of the following companies: TBS Kwatera, PZL Wola S.A., Naftoserwis Sp. z o.o. , Tauron Ciepło S.A. , Kopalnia Wapienia Czatkowice, Krakowskie TBS Sp. z o.o., MARR S.A., PUK Sp. z o.o., MPGK Sp. z o.o.

Mykola Baksheyev

Mykola Baksheyev

Mayor of the city of Perwomajsk

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.

Edwin Bendyk

Edwin Bendyk

Chairman of the Board of the Batory Foundation

Chairman of the Board of the Batory Foundation. Professionally, journalist, publicist and writer, columnist for the Polityka weekly. Member of the Polish PEN-Club and the European Council on Foreign Relations. He runs the blog ‘Antimatrix’ and the podcast ‘Understanding Ukraine’. He has recently published the book ‘In Poland, or Everywhere. On the decline and future of the world’.

Julia Boguslavska

Julia Boguslavska

President of the Ukrainka w Polsce Foundation

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.

Volodymyr Byelyy

Volodymyr Byelyy

Mayor of the City of Bohoduchiw

He is committed to serving the public at a difficult time for Ukraine by supporting the people of the hromada and the Armed Forces. It focuses on maintaining stable infrastructure and assisting internally displaced people by providing shelter. An important part of his work is the development of alternative energy sources, including solar power projects, which increases the independence of the hromada. Despite the difficulties, he continues to implement these projects, supporting the community in dealing with the energy crisis.

Piotr Ciarkowski

Piotr Ciarkowski

Vice President of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce

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.

Mateusz Ciesielski

Mateusz Ciesielski

Director of Business Development at DataWalk

IT market expert with 20 years of experience in the area of business software. He gained experience working for global IT system providers in the area of reporting and advanced analytics. For the last 9 years, he has been associated with DataWalk, a provider of analytics for the largest public and private organisations, based on graph models and artificial intelligence. Among other things, he is responsible for cooperation with the United Nations in the area of forensic analytics in the field of genocide and war crimes and is involved in cooperation with the security institutions of Ukraine in the field of combating crime.

Mirosław Czekaj

Mirosław Czekaj

President of the Management Board of Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego

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.

Magda Dąbrowska

Magda Dąbrowska

Vice President and Managing Director of the Centrum Usług Wspólnych Grupy Progres

Manager with over 22 years of experience in the HR sector. Vice-President and Managing Director of the Shared Services Centre of the Progres Group. She actively participates in the creation and modification of the HR policy. She advises on developing the concept of development and long- and short-term plans of the Company's activities, or in the areas necessary for making investment decisions.

She co-created the Code of Ethics constituting a guideline for actions taken by the companies of the Capital Group in relations with co-workers, individual and business customers, suppliers, competition and social environment. An advocate of the idea of responsible business and an advocate of initiatives supporting people with disabilities and those in need of support.

Graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology, Director of the representative office of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, member of the Business Centre Club, initiator and signatory of the European Diversity Charter, member of the Inclu(vi)sion Partnership Council, board member of the Association of Employers Employing Foreigners We!come.

Paweł Dąbrowski

Paweł Dąbrowski

Director of the Department for International Affairs and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration

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.

Zbigniew Derdziuk

Zbigniew Derdziuk

President of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS)

President of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS), expert in finance, management and insurance. In his career to date, he has worked in public administration since 1989, including senior positions in government. He was a minister in Donald Tusk's government and also Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in the governments of Jerzy Buzek and Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz.

From 2009 to 2015, he headed the Social Insurance Institution. During his term of office, the Platform for Electronic Services (PUE ZUS), electronic e-ZLA sick leave and modern management were introduced and the image of the Department was changed. He was Chairman of the Audit Committee of the International Social Security Association ISSA, based in Geneva. In April this year, he was reappointed as President of ZUS. He is currently Chairman of the Steering Committee of the ISSA European Network (IEN), a member of the ISSA Bureau and Chairman of the ISSA Technical Committee on Old Age, Incapacity and Survivors Insurance.

In addition, he has worked in banking (mBank, Bank Pocztowy and PKO BP, among others), media and consulting in Ukraine, among others.

Martine Diss

Martine Diss

Senior Expert, DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission

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.

Mihnea-Claudiu Drumea

Mihnea-Claudiu Drumea

State Secretary within General Secretariat of Romania Government

Mihnea Claudiu Drumea (BA 1999, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Ph.D. 2007, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj) is a Professor of labor law, transport law and history of law at the Spiru Haret University and associated professor of maritime law at the Naval Academy Mircea cel Batran. So far, he has published 8 course books on Labor Law, Social Security Rights, and Transport Law and over 30 papers at national and international conferences. He has lectured at workshops (Galati, 2013, France, 2009 and 2015) and within specific projects (2013-2015), delivered speeches in over 40 conferences and participated in 7 projects with European Funds. He has served as Dean of the Faculty of Law and Public Administration, Spiru Haret University, Constanta from 2011 till 2021.

Since 2021 he was appointed Secretary of State with the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection till 2022 when he became the state counselor of the Prime Minister of Romania Government.

Starting with 2023, July, he is nominated as State Secretary within General Secretariat of Romania Government.

Rafał Dutkiewicz

Rafał Dutkiewicz

President of the Management Board of the Employers of Poland

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.

Agnieszka Falkowska

Agnieszka Falkowska

Director of the Department for International Development Instruments of the Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego

Agnieszka Falkowska has been with Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego for over 10 years, where she has systematically developed her knowledge and competences. For the first 2 years she held the position of Director of the Sales Support Department, where she managed the Bank's branch network and was a member of the Credit Committee, then for about 6 years she managed the investment project financing team in the role of Deputy Director of the Structural Financing Department.

Currently, as Head of the International Development Instruments Department, she is focused on developing new activities and the Bank's role as an implementing partner of the European Commission's instruments in the area of development aid and international cooperation. She has many years of experience gained in international banks in the field of structural finance and cooperation and relationship building with local and international partners, as well as in financing and cooperation with the public sector.

She studied finance and banking at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) in Warsaw; she was a scholarship holder at the French Haute Etude Commerciale (HEC) in Paris, followed by an MBA at the Switzerland University of Montreaux.

Konrad Fijołek

Konrad Fijołek

Mayor of the City of Rzeszów

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.

Kateryna Glazkova

Kateryna Glazkova

CEO of the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs (SUP)

SUP is the largest unified force of independent Ukrainian entrepreneurs, with no connections to political or oligarchic capital. Under Kateryna's leadership, SUP has united over 1,200 companies from across Ukraine and opened branches in Odesa, Dnipro, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi, and a European office in Warsaw.

Kateryna successfully represents the voice of independent Ukrainian business on the international stage. She has spoken at leading events such as the Ukraine Future Summit (Brussels), Forum 2000 (Prague), the European Forum for New Ideas EFNI (Sopot), Ukraine Reconstruction Forums (Poznan), Rebuild Ukraine (Warsaw), the Ukraine Recovery Forum (Lugano), and many others.

Kateryna is also a member of the Board of the Coalition of Business Communities for the Modernization of Ukraine, which unites over 90 associations in Ukraine. She is actively involved in public activities as a board member of the "Children of Heroes" Foundation.

Kateryna holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Ukrainian Catholic University’s Business School and a Master’s degree in Journalism from Moscow State University. She has seven years of teaching experience at the School of Economic Journalism (a joint project by Ukrainska Pravda and Deutsche Welle).

She possesses an outstanding business reputation and is highly trusted by both entrepreneurs in the country and representatives of government bodies and the expert community. She believes in entrepreneurship and stands for the values of democracy, a free market, healthy competition, and transparent public-private dialogue.

Adam Gramala

Adam Gramala

Co-founder and chief engineer of ENFORCE Medical Technologies

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.

Łukasz Gwiazdowski

Łukasz Gwiazdowski

Vice President of the Management Board of the Polish Investment and Trade Agency

Łukasz Gwiazdowski has worked in management positions in consumer electronics and heating companies for more than twenty years. From 2009, he managed sales as commercial director at INDESIT Company. After the acquisition of the company by Whirlpool Corporation, he took on the position of Sales Director. From September 2016 he was General Manager at Candy Hoover and then from 2017 Managing Director and CEO at VAILLANT SAUNIER DUVAL Ltd.

Yevhenii Harkavyi

Yevhenii Harkavyi

General Director of ‘Centernergo’ PJSC

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.

Mykhailo Ishchuk

Mykhailo Ishchuk

Vice-mer of the city of Izium

He has taken up his post since December 2020.

The priority task at the moment is the reconstruction and development of the Izium urban territorial community. He coordinates the activities of the municipal enterprises of the hromada. Contributes to the organisation of their material and technical support, personnel and financial support. Coordinates the implementation of state programmes for the development of housing and communal services. Contributes to the development of alternative energy sources. Works hard to ensure the stable functioning of the hromada's infrastructure and improve the living conditions of its residents. Always open to dialogue and cooperation.

Krzysztof Izdebski

Krzysztof Izdebski

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

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.

Wojciech Jankowiak

Wojciech Jankowiak

Deputy Marshal of the Wielkopolska Region

Wojciech Jankowiak was born in 1956. He is a graduate of law at the A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań and of postgraduate studies at the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw.

He was Deputy Mayor of Poznań (1989-1990), Deputy Governor of Poznań (1996-1998) and First Deputy Governor of Wielkopolskie (2001-2003). Since 2006, he has been Deputy Governor of the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, responsible for, inter alia, the development of infrastructure, entrepreneurship and the labour market. He represents the region in the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.

He was Vice-President of Poznań-Ławica Airport and a member of the Supervisory Board of Polish Television. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Adam Mickiewicz University Alumni Association. 

Andrius Kalindra

Andrius Kalindra

Ambassador – at Large for Recovery and Reconstruction of Ukraine, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

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.

Jakub Karnowski

Jakub Karnowski

First vice-president of KredoBank S.A.

Jakub Karnowski is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics and an MBA from the Carlson School of Management and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

Researcher and academic lecturer at the Warsaw School of Economics. Recipient of a fellowship from The Margaret Thatcher Foundation. He holds a diploma as a CFA licensed financial advisor. He holds a Ph.D. in economics, is head of the Department of Liberal Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics and supervisor of the Reconstruction of Ukraine Student Research Group.

Iryna Karabut

Iryna Karabut

Chairwoman of Krasnokutske village council

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.

Anatolij Kinach

Anatolij Kinach

President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine from 29 May 2001 to 21 November 2002, Minister of Economy of Ukraine from 21 March 2007 to 18 December 2007.

He is currently President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Union of Employers' Organisations of Ukraine, Co-Chairman of the National Tripartite Social and Economic Council.

Jakub Klimkiewicz

Jakub Klimkiewicz

Vice-President of the Management Board of Zespół Doradców Gospodarczych TOR

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.

Nazar Kohut

Nazar Kohut

Key Expert of the Investment Acquisition and Support Department of UkraineInvest

Key Expert of the Investment Acquisition and Support Department of UkraineInvest. Responsible for support in the implementation of FDI projects, including contacts with public administration, enterprises , as well as business support institutions. Key areas of specialisation: real estate, land transactions, logistics.

Nazar Kohut has experience in supporting export and import operations. He has also worked in commercial real estate advisory and supported projects for key mobile phone operators in Ukraine. He has experience in providing legal services to companies in the framework of Polish-Ukrainian business relations.

He graduated in law from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the Catholic University of Lublin.

Michał Kolasiński

Michał Kolasiński

Marshal Office of the Wielkopolska Region

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.

Maksym Kolinko

Maksym Kolinko

Deputy Chief of Staff, Head of the Department of Territorial and Local Development and International Relations of the Executive Office of the Kharkiv Regional Council

He has two degrees in Economics and Law. He dedicated 20 years to the work in civil service and local government.

Deputy of the Kharkiv Regional Council of the VI and VII convocations. Since 2020 and is still a Deputy of the Krasnohrad District Council of the Kharkiv Region.

He worked in the working group on the implementation of the decentralisation reform and territorial organisation of power in the Kharkiv Region, in the working group on the preparation of proposals for the Prospective Plan for the formation of community territories in the Kharkiv Region and the strategy for reforming local self-government.

For many years, he has been working on the development and implementation of programmes and projects aimed on developing and strengthening the capacity of territorial communities in the Kharkiv Region.

At the Kharkiv Regional Council, he coordinates interregional and international cooperation, establishing ties, in particular with the regions of European countries, establishing partnerships with European institutions, international charities, foundations and projects aimed at addressing humanitarian issues of the territorial communities of the Kharkiv Region, implementing projects to restore the Kharkiv Region and ensuring further cooperation.

Mychajło Komasznia

Mychajło Komasznia

Chief Specialist at the Department of European Integration and International Cooperation of the State Property Fund of Ukraine

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.

Oleksandr Korinnyi

Oleksandr Korinnyi

All-Ukrainian Association of United Hromads

Chairman of the Board of the All-Ukrainian Association of United Hromads, Chairman of the Novo-Ukrainian Hromad

Łukasz Kotapski

Łukasz Kotapski

Vice President of the Management Board of the Agencja Rozwoju Przemysłu S.A.

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.

Sławomir Krenczyk

Sławomir Krenczyk

Deputy President of the Management Board for Development Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka S.A.

He is responsible for the areas of sales, procurement, investment and business diversification at Poland's top mine. Within the Enea CG, he works in the team for cooperation with Ukraine.

He gained managerial experience in public companies, in the energy and raw materials industry. He managed an international think-tank and implemented a Polish-Ukrainian-American project for Ukraine.

He has authored and co-authored reports and publications on the energy transition and participated in public industry debates. In these, he points in particular to the relevance of aspects of industrial competitiveness and security of energy supply.

He holds a degree in law and management and has experience as a university lecturer.

Valerii Krykun

Valerii Krykun

Vice-Mayor of the City of Łozów for the activities of the council executive bodies

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.

Viktor Kryvenko

Viktor Kryvenko

Advisor to the Head of Lviv Regional Military Administration

Viktor Kryvenko was born on 9 January 1982 in Kamianske. He is a graduate of Dnipro State University, where he obtained a master's degree in finance, and Kharkiv Academy of Law, specialising in law. He also holds a master's degree in public administration in the field of national security. He has worked in key positions in Ukraine's defence and space industries, holding advisory positions at Ukrspecexport and Ukroboronprom, among others. He was a member of the eighth term of the Parliament of Ukraine and deputy chairman of the Budget Committee. Since 2021, he has served as Honorary Chairman of the People's Movement of Ukraine. He is active in non-governmental organisations and holds advisory positions at various administrative levels. He is interested in history, philosophy and sports.

Jacek Kuśmierczyk

Jacek Kuśmierczyk

President of the Polish Chamber of Printing

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.

prof. Ella Libanova

prof. Ella Libanova

Director of the "Ukrainian center for social reforms"

Scientist in the field of socioeconomics, demography, and labor economics, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, doctor of economic sciences, professor, honored economist of Ukraine.

Member of the International Union of Demographers. Director of the Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Director of the Non-governmental organization "Ukrainian center for social reforms".

Artur Lorkowski

Artur Lorkowski

Director of the Energy Community Secretariat

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.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

Volodymyr Lytvyn

President of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce on the Ukrainian side

Master's degree in Banking and International Finance, President of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce on the Ukrainian side, Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine (2007-2009), Deputy Chairman of Oschadbank (2014-2022), Deputy Chairman of Naftogaz (2005-2006). Since 2022 - independent member of the Supervisory Board of PrivatBank. He also gained his experience at the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, among others.

Piotr Maciaszek

Piotr Maciaszek

Director of the Insurance and International Cooperation Department of the Korporacja Ubezpieczeń Kredytów Eksportowych (KUKE)

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.

Daria Marchak

Daria Marchak

First Deputy Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine

She has been working in the service system since 2015. She has experience in the implementation of complex projects for the reform of some areas of public administration.

From the side of the Government and international partners, she was responsible for the promotion and implementation of low-level reforms, in particular: the promotion of land reform; the introduction of the reform of electronic equipment and state and municipal property systems (as head of SE ‘Prozorro.Pr odazhi’).

On the side of analytical organisations (Kyiv School of Economics), she was responsible for building and developing analytical capacities for independent analysis of public finances and assessment of losses of the Ukrainian economy as a result of massive Russian aggression (‘Russia will pay’). Since July 2022, she has served as First Deputy Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine.

Dr Sławomir Mazurek

Dr Sławomir Mazurek

Head of Department of Raw Materials Policy, Polish Geological Institute - PIB

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.

Marijka Nebozhenko

Marijka Nebozhenko

Head of the Diia.Business Centre in Warsaw

Head of the Diia.Business Centre in Warsaw, Founder and President of the Empowerment Foundation, Co-head of the CSP for Foreigners of the City of Warsaw.

Tetiana Nekhaichuk

Tetiana Nekhaichuk

All-Ukrainian Association of United Hromads

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.

Iryna Nichaeva

Iryna Nichaeva

Chkalov settlement council of Kharkiv region

Head of the Department of socio-economic development and investment activities of the Executive Committee of the Chkalov settlement council of Kharkiv region.

She deals with investment activities, raising funds for the reconstruction of the municipality.

Artur Nizioł

Artur Nizioł

Founder and main shareholder of the Uniserv Group

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.

Volodymyr Noskov

Volodymyr Noskov

Kharkiv journalist

Volodymyr Noskov is a Kharkiv journalist who, despite his disability, is well known in the media space. Over the years of his work, he has worked with all-Ukrainian and international radio stations - ‘Era-FM’, ‘Radio Svoboda’, ‘Hromadskie radio’. Currently, Volodymyr prepares programmes for Ukrainian and Polish Radio, and is also the presenter of the live programme and author's podcast ‘Ramie w ramie’ about war veterans on Kharkiv radio ‘Nakypilo’. He is co-author of the programme ‘Heroes of Kharkiv’.

Dr hab. Dariusz Nowak

Dr hab. Dariusz Nowak

Poznań University of Economics and Business

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.

Marta Olejnik

Marta Olejnik

MOD21 International Projects Director

Graduated from the University of Economics in Poznań, SGGW in ‘Wood Construction’ and FTM at Harvard Business Review. She specialises in international cooperation and coordination between the sales department and the technology and production area at MOD21 in Düsseldorf.

Olga Paliwoda

Olga Paliwoda

Ukrainian-Polish Business Manager at the Ukrainian-Polish Business Development Centre KredoBank SA.

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.

Monika Piątek

Monika Piątek

Expert on employment of foreigners on the Polish labour market

Monika Piątek has been working in the labour market for 12 years in the HR sector, and more specifically in the field of employment of foreigners. She started her career as an intern at the Department of Foreigners' Affairs in the Mazovian Voivodeship Office. There she learnt the ins and outs of working with foreigners' documents so that their stay and work on the territory of the Republic of Poland was legal. Today, she is an expert in employing foreigners on the Polish labour market. She cooperates with entrepreneurs from various sectors.

She gained her experience in cooperation with entrepreneurs from the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and in her work as a Foreigner Recruitment Coordinator in Jeronimo Martins Polska S.A. During all these years, she has been responsible for the preparation of full documentation for the employment of a foreigner at a given entrepreneur.

She has cooperated with representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland and Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration of Poland and Ukraine and the Embassy of Ukraine. On a daily basis, she works with the Border Guard, Inspectors of the State Labour Inspectorate, officials of District Labour Offices and Provincial Offices.

She is a Ukrainian philologist by education. She knows and speaks Ukrainian. She is a translator of Ukrainian and a graduate of the MBA in Management and Marketing at the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Warsaw.

Her life motto is: ‘you will soon realise that what looks like sacrifice today will instead turn out to be the greatest investment you will ever make.’

Jacek Piechota

Jacek Piechota

President of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce on the Polish side

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.

Jan Piekło

Jan Piekło

Chairman of the Council, Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce

Chairman of the Council, from 2016 to 2019 Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine. From 2005 he was the Executive Director of PAUCI (Poland-America-Ukraine Cooperation Initiative, later transformed into the Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI), he led cross-border projects in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine, among others. From 2019 to 2024 he was an advisor to Witold Waszczykowski, who was Head of the EP Delegation for Ukraine. From 2011 to 2013 he was a member of the Steering Committee of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum at the European Commission; He worked as a reporter, covering the revolution in Romania and the war in the former Yugoslavia. In the 1990s he was editor of Tygodnik Powszechny.

Leszek Pietraszek

Leszek Pietraszek

President of the Management Board of PGG S.A.

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.

Tomasz Poskrobko

Tomasz Poskrobko

Director of Construction Exports Unibep S.A.

Tomasz Poskrobko is Director of Construction Export at Unibep S.A., one of the largest Polish construction companies, which operates both domestically and in foreign markets. He has many years of experience in managing construction projects and has been involved in international projects, particularly in Eastern Europe, including Belarus and Ukraine.

Michał Polański

Michał Polański

Director of the Business Support Department

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).

Prof. dr hab. Marta Postuła

Prof. dr hab. Marta Postuła

First vice-president of the board of directors of the Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego 

Since 2022, she has been an advisor to the Board of Directors on sustainability at the Environmental Bank Brokerage. Prior to that, she was Director of the Issuer Relations Department at the same institution for six years.

She has several years of experience working in the public sector. From 1999 to 2016, she worked at the Ministry of Finance, where she headed departments responsible for, among other things: the creation of strategic documents and coordination of activities related to the development of the Public Finance Act, the implementation of socio-economic policies of governments, and the assessment of the effectiveness of public spending in the public sector.

She has served on the supervisory boards of, among others, BGK, PL2012, Intercity and SKM. Since 2020, she has been Head of the Department of Finance and Accounting at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw. From 2016 to 2023, she served as the director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the UW. At BGK, she oversees the area of government and European markets and programmes.

Since 2020, she has been a full professor of social sciences, a title she received from the President of the Republic of Poland. She holds a postdoctoral degree in economics in the discipline of finance, as well as a PhD in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics.

She is the author of numerous book publications and articles in the field of finance, in particular in the areas of public finance and investment finance.

Igor Potapov

Igor Potapov

Managing Director, Kaiserpfalz Finanzberatung GmbH

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.

Alfred F. Praus

Alfred F. Praus

President of the Ukrainian-Austrian Association

He holds an MBA from the University of Economics in Vienna. He has 25 years of professional experience in industry and engineering worldwide, including 10 years as managing director and then president of a group of companies. He worked in Ukraine for 15 years, where he was founder and managing director of two international joint ventures.

In 2017, he founded the Ukrainian-Austrian Association in Kyiv and has since served as its president. From 2020 to 2021, he served as Secretary General of the International Council of Associations and Chambers of Commerce in Ukraine and is currently a member of their Board of Directors. He is also a board member of Junior Achievement Ukraine and chairman of the board of SOS Children's Villages in Ukraine. She is active in bilateral projects between Ukraine and Austria and others. He is a lecturer on international business and intercultural management.

He moved from Kyiv to Vienna in March 2022 due to the war, but is regularly in Ukraine. He is a keynote speaker at international conferences held in Ukraine and has an extensive network of contacts among Ukrainian political and business representatives.

Mikołaj Raczyński

Mikołaj Raczyński

Vice President of the Management Board of the Polski Fundusz Rozwoju S.A. (PFR)

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.

Gennadyi Radchenko

Gennadyi Radchenko

Advisor to the President of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce

After graduating from Kyiv's Shevchenko University, he worked as a television and radio journalist. He served as vice-president of Ukrainian Television, where he co-organised, among other things, television debates of the country's presidential candidates and, in 2003-2005, the first Eurovision contest in Ukrainian history. He represented Ukrainian television in international organisations.

For almost twenty years he worked for multinational corporations - including Mitsubishi Corporation, and Nestle - in Ukraine and Moldova, where he was a member of the Board of Directors and Director of Corporate Relations and Communications.

From 2016 to 2018, he was a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of Ukrnafta, Ukraine's largest oil producing company, where he was responsible for external and internal communications, the company's relations with state authorities, social programmes and health, safety and environmental policy.

In recent years, he has worked as an advisor to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, then served as chairman of the industrial and infrastructure development committee of the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs ‘SUP’.

He is well aware of the challenges of the need to transform Ukrainian industry and energy. He contributes to Ukrainian media Liga.net and Forbes.

Oleksandr Reznyk

Oleksandr Reznyk

Business Development Director, Coal Energy S.A.

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.

Dr hab. Kateryna Romanchuk

Dr hab. Kateryna Romanchuk

Chair of Accounting and Auditing at the Poznań University of Economics and Business

She has over 20 years of experience in the field of higher education and research staff training, including in Ukraine. She is active lecturer.

She is the author of more than 130 scientific publications in the fields of entrepreneurship, accounting, auditing and international economic relations, as well as practical articles in professional journals.

She participated in the international educational project ‘Innovative University and Leadership’.

Bartosz Rożnawski

Bartosz Rożnawski

Deputy President of the Management Board for Production, Lubelski Węgiel ‘Bogdanka’ S.A.

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.

Kateryna Ryżenko

Kateryna Ryżenko

Transparency International Ukraine

She has more than ten years of professional experience in the field of law and has specialised in the fight against corruption for eight years. She has worked on international projects and in civic organisations in Norway, Poland and Ukraine. Since 2019, she has been managing the legal department at Transparency International Ukraine. Among other things, she was a member of the Civic Council at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, the competition commission for the selection of the president of the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption, the chairwoman of the secretariat of the commission for the first external independent evaluation of the effectiveness of NABU activities.

Alena Sabelová

Alena Sabelová

State Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister for the Recovery Plan and Knowledge Economy

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.

Andriy Sadovyy

Andriy Sadovyy

Lviv City Mayor, politician, public figure

Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, Andriy Sadovyy has been actively involved in developing independent media and public activities. He founded the City Development Institute, which created Lviv's first development strategy, and co-founded the "Lux" media holding. In 2004, he launched the "Samopomich" public association and won the Lviv mayoral elections in 2006. Under his leadership, Lviv became a cultural and tourist hub, hosting major international events like the Leopolis Jazz Fest and Lviv IT Arena. In 2013, he founded the "Samopomich" Union party but chose to continue serving as Lviv's mayor. Since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, he helped establish the "Unbroken" medical rehabilitation center for war victims.

Oryslava Savka

Oryslava Savka

Founder of Galoris Ltd.

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’.

Paweł Sendrowski

Paweł Sendrowski

Chairman of the Economic Area Development Council of the Słubice-Kostrzyn Special Economic Zone

Legal counsel, managing partner in Wielkopolska Legal Group. He specialises in several areas of law: public procurement (including the procurement of international organisations), public finance discipline, proper disbursement of funds from the European Union, the investment process, as well as implementation of sustainable development strategies.He is involved in the process of reconstruction of Ukraine using funds from international organisations.

On behalf of, among others: Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego, National Funds for Environmental Protection and Water Management and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, he has led the control of public procurement procedures financed with external funds.

He is the author of commentaries: ‘Contracts of the same type. Correct estimation of contract value’ and “Procedures for the disbursement of EU funds in the financial perspective 2014-2020”. He is also the author of a number of publications on: foreign procurement, green and sustainable procurement and the rules for awarding contracts with a value of less than PLN 130,000.00 net (e.g. for Wolters Kluwer).

He conducts numerous training courses on, inter alia: public procurement law, procurement of international organisations, sustainable development (in this respect, he cooperates with the Ministry of Development and Technology, the Polish Investment and Trade Agency, the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, the Wielkopolska Development Fund and Wolters Kluwer).

He is the Chairman of the Economic Area Development Council at the Słubice-Kostrzyn Special Economic Zone. Member of the Supervisory Board of H. Cegielski - Fabryka Pojazdów Szynowych sp. z o.o.

Creator of a portal for handling public procurement proceedings ‘Procedure Assistant’.

Olena Shtohryn

Olena Shtohryn

Managing Partner Dictio, Ukrainian attorney

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.

dr hab. Beata Skowron-Mielnik

dr hab. Beata Skowron-Mielnik

Vice-Rector for Didactics, Poznań University of Economics and Business

Specialist in organisational human capital management. Her research focuses on work organisation, hybrid work, job design, time management, diversity management, competence development. She has authored more than 100 scientific publications in the field of human resource management and has initiated and coordinated business studies and projects. Business consultant and lecturer at undergraduate, master, postgraduate, MBA and PhD programmes.

Valerii Skrypnichenko

Valerii Skrypnichenko

Mayor of Walky

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.

Oksana Suprun

Oksana Suprun

Head of the Military Administration of the village of Savynci

Master's degree in public administration and management.

She has experience in state and local administration since 2015.

Her first degree is in Ukrainian language and literature. She has been working in the education system since 2000.

During her service as head of military administration, she set herself the goal of rebuilding the community after the deoccupation by rebuilding housing and social infrastructure and, above all, restoring human capital to the community. Today, 100% of health care facilities have been restored in the community, an Administrative Service Centre has opened and a Social Services Centre with a department for working with veterans has been launched. Three spaces for children, one educational space and a space for women and children affected by domestic violence have been opened. Educational facilities were optimised (due to damage). Assistance was provided to 600 households for reconstruction.

More than UAH 60 million in material and technical assistance was provided to the community in two years of work. More than 30 memoranda of cooperation were signed.

Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Szamałek

Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Szamałek

Director of the Polish Geological Institute - PIB

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.

Łukasz Szeląg

Łukasz Szeląg

Vice-Chairman of the Energy Committee of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce

Vice-Chairman of the Energy Committee of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce. Co-founder of a startup promoting the conversion of waste into green energy with technology based on Polish research - Polish Hydrogen Group. Director for Western Poland at the National Chamber of Energy Clusters and Renewable Sources. Active in the Boards of non-governmental organisations such as WKlaster and GreenLab. Previously a journalist of i.a: Kurier Szczeciński, Polish Radio, TVN24 and Polsat. Expert in the industry portal Wodociagowiec.pl In 2020, together with the Sea Port of Kołobrzeg, he started the process of integrating the economic environment for the benefit of the local supply chain. Today he advises local governments, NGOs and companies on adapting to energy changes and obtaining subsidies and building RES. He initiated the establishment of the Foundation for the Development of Western Poland in Wrocław.

Piotr Szewczyk

Piotr Szewczyk

President of the Management Board of APS Energia S.A.

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.

Dariusz Szymczycha

Dariusz Szymczycha

First Vice President of Polish - Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce

Dariusz Szymczycha, First Vice President of Polish - Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, who coordinates a platform of support for reconstruction of Ukraine , Humanitarian Aid Fund  and  support for decentralization in Ukraine.

He was the editor-in-chief of the "Trybuna" . Then, in the years 2002-2005, he was the Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski. He participated in the Polish mission of goodwill during the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine in 2004.

Expert in the field of Public Affairs, including relations with the institutions of the European Union.

Karol Tofil

Karol Tofil

Director of the International Partnerships Office, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego

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.

Tetiana Uzhviy

Tetiana Uzhviy

Director of the Investment Office of the Odesa Regional Development Agency

For the last ten years she has been involved in investment attraction and international cooperation in Kherson and Odesa regions.
As part of the Investment Office, she provides comprehensive one-stop-shop services for investment projects in Odesa region: analytics, consulting, GR.

Szymon Waszczyn

Szymon Waszczyn

Bolix Ukraine

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.

Marcin Wiatrów

Marcin Wiatrów

Deputy Director of the Labour Market Department at the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy

Graduate of social sciences at the University of Opole and the National School of Public Administration. Since 2010 he has worked in central administration dealing mainly with public policies in the field of labour market and labour migration.

Marcin Witczak

Marcin Witczak

President of Laude Smart Intermodal S.A.

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.

Maciej Witucki

Maciej Witucki

President of the Lewiatan Confederation

Maciej Witucki has been President of the Lewiatan Confederation since June 2019 and was Vice President of this employers' organisation between 2006 and 2019. Vice President, member of the Presidium of the Social Dialogue Council. Vice-president of BusinessEurope since 25 November 2022.

He studied at the Poznań University of Technology and completed his postgraduate studies in France, at Ecole Central Paris. He specialised in operational research and decision support. He worked at Cetelem Bank Poland, then on the board of Lukas Bank, of which he was president in 2005. Then, in 2006, he became President of Telekomunikacja Polska and at the same time head of the TP Group, which included 23 companies, and later, in 2016, President of the Management Board of Work Service SA. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Orange and also sits on the Supervisory Boards of TISE, Uniqa, Krynica Vitamin.

A member of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council, he sits on the Board of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the International Advisory Board of GLOBSEC and the International Business Advisory Board of Kozminski University. Maciej Witucki is also a member of the Council of the Professor B. Geremek Centre Foundation, founder of the Poland-Haiti Foundation and co-founder of the Dorastaj z Nami Foundation.

Konrad Wojnarowski

Konrad Wojnarowski

Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy

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.

Andrzej Wrębiak

Andrzej Wrębiak

Director of the Business Advisory Center of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce

Senior Partner and transaction adviser with over 30 years of experience in business strategy, finance consultancy, and M&A advisory. The CEO of Empiria Consulting (Warsaw). Ph.D. in economics. From 2022 - the director of the Business Advisory Center of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce

Viktor Yadukha

Viktor Yadukha

First Vice-Chairman of the AsMAP Council of Ukraine

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.

Olha Zakharova

Olha Zakharova

Chief specialist at the Department of European Integration and International Cooperation of the State Property Fund of Ukraine

Olha Zakharova is a chief specialist at the Department of European Integration and International Cooperation of the State Property Fund of Ukraine. In 2022, she participated in the internship programme of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada Commission on Agrarian and Land Policy, where she was in charge of the organisation of the Commission's meetings, as well as its social media presence. Since 2023, she has coordinated cooperation between the State Property Fund of Ukraine and international organisations such as the IMF, OECD and the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Marcin Zieniewcz

Marcin Zieniewcz

Key Expert, Polish Investment and Trade Agency

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).