Born on 20 June 1968 in Wrocław. Polish manager and banker, politician.

On 11 December 2017 he was appointed Prime Minister, Minister of Development and Finance. Prime Minister since 9 January 2018.

Since 29 September 2016 until 11 December 2017 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development and Finance. Since 16 November 2015 he acted as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development.

Morawiecki is an alumnus of the University of Wrocław, Business Administration Central Connecticut State University and Wrocław University of Technology, MBA at Wrocław University of Economics, the University of Hamburg and the University of Basel.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development

Since April 9th, 2020 – Deputy Prime Minister. Since November 15th, 2019 – Minister of Development. Earlier – since January 9th, 2018 – Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology. And since November 27th, 2015 – Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Development.

Holds responsibility for the economy, construction and tourism divisions. As the Minister of Development, she was the co-creator of the Anti-Crisis Shield, aiming to prevent the negative impact of the Coronavirus epidemic on the Polish economy and labour market.

As the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology, she has implemented a variety of measures for facilitating business, such as, for instance: the new Public Procurement Law,
programs of preferential contributions to the Polish Social Insurance Institution (“Mały ZUS” and “Mały ZUS Plus”),  Succession Management Act, SME Package, the Act on Preventing Payment Bottlenecks, Friendly Law Package or an Act introducing the Polish Investment Zone. The Business Constitution was introduced during her term of office.

She has taken and supported measures for counteracting smog and the dissemination of RSE, including the Clean Air Programme and the Energy Plus Programme. As well as pro-innovative measures, such as tax relief on R&D expenditures, IP Box, Start in Poland Programme or the Future Industry Platform.

She is a graduate of the Institute of Political Science of the Jagiellonian University. She has started her doctoral studies at the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University. She received a scholarship at the Oxford University and the American Council on Germany Programme, Dräger Foundation, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. Since 2003 she has been cooperating with the Tischner European University in Cracow.

Between 1999 and 2002 she was employed at the Foreign Affairs Department of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.

In 2009 - the manager of the Museum of Poland under the Communist Regime in Cracow.

A social activist and an author of numerous scientific publications. The former President of the Better Poland Foundation the Vice-President of Jarosław Gowin’s Porozumienie political party.

Artur Apostoł is Chief Operating Officer at Globalworth Poland. Prior to that he was the Head of Investments and he was responsible for the company’s acquisitions and portfolio management across Poland. Artur has 13+ years of professional experience in investment transactions and asset management in the commercial real estate market in Poland which he also gained as Senior Vice President – Investments at Griffin Real Estate, Project Finance Manager at PointPark Properties (P3 Logistic Parks now), Financial Analyst in Real Estate Department at AKJ Investment TFI (Capital Partners TFI now) and Senior Associate in Real Estate Advisory of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC now). Graduated from the University of Economics in Katowice (MA in Finance & Investment). He also studied at Jönköping International Business School (Sweden) as the Erasmus student. He also completed post-graduate studies in Real Estate Valuation at the Cracow University of Technology.

President of the board (CEO) and director of Digital Industries division at Siemens in Poland.

Associated with Siemens for almost 25 years. Before becoming its CEO, she served as the company’s CFO.

A graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics, where she majored in Foreign Trade as well as the Advanced Management Program IESE in Barcelona. She combines an education in economics with an innately humanist view of the world.

A proponent of corporate social responsibility, active participation of women in business (mainly the science and technology industries); advocate for diversity and inclusive management. Believes that actions speak louder than words, which is why she plays an active part in initiatives that match her values: e.g. as Chairwoman of the Responsible Business Forum, VP of the Lewiatan Confederation of Private Employers, Member of the OEES Program Board, Chairwoman at the Council of the Polish Chamber of Commerce for Electronics and Telecommunications, Member of the Accessibility Council appointed by the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy. In April 2019, appointed by the Senate of the Warsaw University of Technology to its Council.

Believes in what she does and does what she believes in.

Ronald Binkofski joined Honeywell in June 2018, as President, Central and Eastern Europe from Microsoft, where he held the positions of General Manager Microsoft Central Asia Region as well as General Manager for Poland, Romania and Moldova. Ronald also held the position of Business and Marketing Director and COO for Poland.

Prior to joining Microsoft, he was an independent management consultant in the fields of IT and Software, as well as Area Manager for Software, AG in Germany.

Ronald holds a Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland and is alumni of Advanced Management Program at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. Ronald studied also the Russian language at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.

As a Business Location Consulting Director in JLL London-based team, Iwona provides consultancy services to clients prospecting EMEA market potential. She specialises in corporate site selection and grants & incentives opportunities. Iwona spent more than 15 years in location consulting with Polish Trade and Investment Agency promoting Poland as an appealing investment destination, advising companies interested in starting or expanding their businesses on location opportunities and state aid issues. Iwona worked closely with over 450 global companies representing various sectors. At that time, the team she supervised assisted in the completion of 736 investment projects worth EUR 18.9 billion and creating over 196 thousand job places. Iwona holds an Executive Master’s Degree in marketing and administration from School of Business of the Technical University of Warsaw in partnership with French HEC. She also completed PhD course in economics at Warsaw School of Economics.

Andrew Harding is Chief Executive – Management Accounting of The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA), and Secretary General of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

Prior to this he was Chief Executive of CIMA as it joined forces with the American Institute of CPAs to create the world’s most influential accountancy Association, representing the full breadth of the profession.

He served as Managing Director of CIMA from 2011 to 2016 and was responsible for the institute’s operational performance.

Andrew is a chartered global management accountant, a chartered accountant, and holds an MBA from Henley Business School. Prior to joining CIMA in 2009, Andrew worked for 17 years in professional body education, regulation and management.

He is a keen musician and supporter of Queens Park Rangers F.C.

Janet Henry was appointed as HSBC’s Global Chief Economist in August 2015. She was previously HSBC’s Chief European Economist and is a member of Handelsblatt’s Shadow ECB Council. Much of her past work has focused on globalisation – including the global determinants of local inflation – but in the past five years she has focused more on the political and economic challenges that persist in the post global financial crisis era, notably labour market disruption and other structural drivers of low inflation but also the growing polarisation of income growth and household wealth within major advanced economies. She has given evidence to financial committees of the EU Parliament on China and UK House of Lords on Europe. Janet joined HSBC in 1996 in Hong Kong where she worked as an Asian economist in the run-up to, and aftermath of, the Asian crisis.

Krzysztof Krawczyk is a Partner at CVC Capital Partners and a Head of Warsaw office, one of the world’s leading private equity and investment advisory firms. He is also a board member of CVC's two Polish portfolio companies, PKP Energetyka and Żabka.

Krzysztof has over 20 years of successful track record in European private equity and he served on the boards of numerous private and publicly-listed companies in telecom, media, manufacturing, logistics and healthcare sectors throughout CEE region. Prior to joining CVC, Krzysztof was Managing Partner at Innova Capital, a leading mid market private equity firm in Central Europe. Krzysztof also worked at Pioneer Investment, a Poland-based private equity fund, and Daiwa Institute of Research, an advisory arm of Japanese investment bank Daiwa. He is a Vice President of Polish Private Equity Association and co-founded and co-chaired its LBO Committee in the past. Krzysztof holds a degree (with Honors) in Finance & Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics. He is also an alumnus of Executive Program at Harvard Business School. Krzysztof has been awarded a PE Person of the Year for 2014 and 2017 by members of Polish Private Equity Association.

Jacek Levernes is a senior executive with +20 years of leadership experience working across CEE, Europe and globally. His specialties include business development, operations, digital transformation, investment growth, as well as strategy and public affairs, while his track record spans multiple industries.

Currently he is a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Chairman at ICTSI Poland, and a non-executive Board Member of Globalworth Holding B.V., the investment fund behind the largest institutional real estate asset manager in the office segment across CEE.

He is also the co-founder and now the Honorary President of the Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL) an organization representing 300.000 sector jobs and 200 large investors in Poland including IBM, HP, Google, McKinsey, Infosys, Sony, Shell, Thomson Reuters, UBS, Credit Suisse, Citi, Bertelsmann, Cap Gemini, JP Morgan, State Street, Accenture and Goldman Sachs. ABSL is growing across Europe and also has organizations in the Czech Republic, Romania, Balkans, Baltics and Switzerland.

He has studied, lived and worked in Norway, Poland, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Singapore and the USA.

Michał Mierzejewski, lawyer, graduate of Law and Administration faculty at the Warsaw University.

Michal joined Philip Morris in Poland in 2004 as Manager Government Relations. In 2008, he was appointed Director Corporate Affairs Poland and in 2013 Director Corporate Affairs Poland & Baltic States. His in-depth understanding of business, excellent communication skills and strong leadership capabilities has made him a recognized partner at both local and global PMI levels. Hence, in 2017, he took over responsibilities of Managing Director Poland & Baltic States of the leading tobacco company in Poland, with around 40% market share and giving employment to over 7000 people.

Before Michał joined the tobacco sector, he had worked, among others, as a lawyer in the Government Center of Strategic Studies and Director of Foreign Investments Department in the Polish Agency of Information and Foreign Investments (PAIiZ), where he was responsible for introduction and negotiation of the largest foreign investments’ projects in Poland.

Pawel is an expert in the field of business services sectors with experience from both sides of the investment process.

In the years 2002 – 2007 Pawel has worked very closely with the Mayor of Wroclaw in the field of supporting investors opening new factories and business service centers.

Between 2008 and 2012 Pawel worked as the Manager in the Business Advisory Services department of EY, conducting negotiations with investors choosing the location or looking for support in early stages of the projects.

In 2009, together with the ABSL Founding Members, he supported creation of ABSL and served as Advisor to the Management Board. Since 2012 Pawel has been working full time as the ABSL Managing Director. In the last 5 years he, among others, defined and created the 7 ABSL local chapters, supervised cooperation with ABSL strategic Partners in key fields of sector’s growth, supervised business development activities supporting ABSL projects including Annual and International Conferences and recently enlarged the organization with one more local chapter in Szczecin.

Close to 20 years of international business experience with expertise in general management, strategic growth, sales, capital markets, digital economy, transformation and leadership. Since 2014 is a Managing Director at S&P Global Ratings, executing across three senior commercial roles: - Region Head managing the commercial business for large part of EMEA: within led territory oversees both relationship management and business development for all practices, markets and products. - Regional Head for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): drives the franchise, strategy and management of the ratings business across the region. - General Manager for Poland, runs day-to-day operations of the Warsaw office. Pro bono is a Member of the Board of Directors at the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland (AmCham) and the Leslaw A. Paga Foundation. Recognized as a leading industry figure and influential speaker, with unique market visibility and relevance. Actively engaged in the Digital Economy acting as chairman of the program board for Fintech Digital CEE - region’s premiere digital finance conference. Passionate about social responsibility, regularly mentors and develops future business leaders. Before joining S&P was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Corporate and Investment Bank in London, covering Russia, CIS, CEE, and Israel for Markets & Investor Services. At the same time was Deputy General Manager for J.P. Morgan CIB in Poland. Prior to 2007 spent five years with Citi Corporate and Investment Banking, operating in Poland and CEE. Alumnus of the Leadership Academy for Poland, Kozminski University, Lund School of Economics & Management and the University of Warsaw.

Jeroen Tiel, Managing Director of Randstad Poland and CEE Region, born in the Netherlands, in Randstad for more than 20 years. In his career he held a number of managing functions. He has been living in Denmark (since 2007) and Sweden (2011), being in charge of the branches in these countries. He was responsible for the integration of Randstad and one of the local leaders in the HR industry in Scandinavia – Proffice, leading the company to the first position in the HR industry in Sweden. In 2017 he moved to Warsaw and currently is responsible for the Polish market and the Randstad activities in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary.

Partner, COO of the entire EY organization in Poland. An experienced leader in the field of public aid and investment incentives for new investments and R&D works. In the past, for 15 years, he was the leader of the Grants and Incentives Advisory Team supporting domestic and foreign investors in applying for state aid. He has a long-term experience in running projects for companies operating in Special Economic Zones and in cooperation with management of the SEZs. He was involved in negotiations of the public aid packages for the largest foreign investment projects in Poland and for the implementation of R & D projects.

He is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics.