EuroPOWER Energy Conference & OZE POWER

A graduate of the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, specialty – computer science and economic cybernetics (1979) And Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Postgraduate (1998), Doctor of Economics (1988). Since graduating in 1979 to 2011, professionally related with the Department of Economic Policy and Planning, since 1989 with the Department of Finance and Banking Faculty of Economic Sciences. Longtime lecturer at the postgraduate study “Money and Banking”. In the years 1990 – 1994 active in commercial banking structures. He was the President of the Management Board of the Bank Cooperative Crafts in Warsaw, and in the years 1993 – 1994 co-organized the activities of the Polish Investment Bank SA where he was, i.a., Director of the Credit Department and Traders and Vice President (1997), responsible for retail banking.
In the years 1994 – 1997 – Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Privatization and Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Treasury, responsible for capital privatization, the restructuring of enterprises and companies of the Treasury, for the use of aid funds and the division of economic analysis in relation to the assets of the Treasury and responsible for supervising companies with foreign capital. He collaborated with investors and privatization advisors, Securities and Exchange Commission and the Stock Exchange. In the 1997 – 2007 – President of the Energy Regulatory Office.
In the period of 2007 – 2012 – President of the Management Board of Mostostal Zabrze Holding S.A. (MZH SA), a public company listed on the Stock Exchange in Warsaw. In the years 1995 -1997 chaired the Supervisory Board of “Petrochemia Plock” S.A, and in the years 1996 – 1998 – Council of the Stock Exchange in Warsaw. He participated in the work of the Supervisory Board of Powszechny Bank Kredytowy SA Warsaw, 1995 – 1996. During 2007-2012 he oversaw a number of commercial companies in the Group MZH SA.
Currently operates expertise and advice, being i.a. consultant to the Center for the Antitrust and Regulatory Study Faculty of Management University of Warsaw and the advisor to the President of the Employers of Poland. He is the author and co-author of dozens of articles and several scientific books on finance, economic policy, including regulation in the energy sector, as well as privatization.

Vice President of Energy Regulatory Office since 2012, since 2013 – Acting President of ERO.
Maciej Bando graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology. He also completed postgraduate studies in business and management, as well as various courses and trainings in this field. During many years of his professional career he gained experience working in different entities as financial director and Member of the Board responsible for finance and investment. In the years 2002-2009, he was involved in the activities of Polska Grupa Energetyczna, being Vice President of the Board of Pumped-Storage Hydroelectricity Plant (currently PGE Energia Odnawialna) and director of the Investment Bureau of PGE Dystrybucja Warszawa Teren. He is the author of various analyses and reports on energy, he also cooperated as an expert with, among others, CASE group.

Holds the PhD of Technical Sciences in the field of electrical power engineering and energy economics. Has been working at the Energy Regulatory Office URE since 2004, among others as the deputy director of the Department of Market Development and Consumer Issues. He took the position of URE President in 2019.
Experienced in international cooperation: serving as an expert of the European Commission for the TAIEX programmes and twin-project in Ukraine related to the functioning of the electricity market, security of energy supply, the balancing market and congestion management. Expert at Florence School of Regulation on the development and operation of regional electricity markets. National expert with the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). In March 2021 appointed for the position of ACER Board of Regulators’ (BoR) Vice Chairman.
Experienced in supervising energy companies, particularly in the field of financial reporting and audit as well as investment and development.
Author of numerous publications and studies on the functioning of electricity markets, including the grid access principles, balancing and regional markets.

Mr. Hinc assumed his position on February 12, 2024.

Sławomir Hinc has long-standing experience in natural gas industry, having been directly involved in the development of the concept of national gas transmission system operator in Poland since 2003.From 2004 to 2008, he held the position of Financial Director at PGNiG Przesył (currently GAZ-SYSTEM), where he was responsible for cooperation with the Energy Regulatory Office, negotiations of the lease agreement for transmission assets that were transferred to GAZ-SYSTEM by PGNiG as a dividend in kind. He also supervised the process of obtaining a gas transmission license by GAZ-SYSTEM. From 2006 to 2008, he served as a commercial proxy in GAZ-SYSTEM. He is the author of its first transmission tariff. He was responsible on GAZ-SYSTEM’s part for the transfer of Regional Transmission Branches from PGNiG S.A. structures to GAZ-SYSTEM in 2005.

From 2008 to 2013, he served as Vice-President for Financial Affairs at PGNiG, where he was responsible for the spin-off of the storage system operator (SSO) currently independently operating under the business name Gas Storage Poland and the launch of storage services on the market. From 2008 to 2014, he served as a member of the Supervisory Board of EuRoPol GAZ. In 2010, he was appointed to the Governing Board of the European Association of Gas and Oil Companies EUROGAS in Brussels where he served until 2015.

From 2013 to 2016, he served as President and CEO of PGNiG Upstream Norway, where he was responsible for the acquisition of PGNiG’s interests in 4 gas fields, and for this business deal he received the Gullkronen Award for the best oil transaction in Norway. He also supervised the company’s expansion of exploration activities in the north of Norway, including the obtaining of exploration licences in the Barents Sea by PGNiG. From 2019 to 2024, he was involved in the renewable energy industry, first as an advisor to the Management Board and then as a member of the Supervisory Board of Helioexpert. In 2019, he was appointed as President and Managing Director at Green Genius – a Polish branch of a Lithuanian solar power plant operator. 

He holds a degree in economics from the Institute of Foreign Trade at the University of Gdańsk and a Ph.D. in engineering and technology specialising in gas transmission tariff systems from the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology. He also studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. He completed postgraduate Business Management Programme organised by the Central Connecticut State University. Lecturer at postgraduate studies at the Warsaw University of Technology and the AGH University of Science and Technology in the field of transport, tariffs and regulatory affairs in the natural gas market. Author of numerous publications on natural gas tariffs and transportation.

Graduate mathematics – natural studies Pedagogical University in Szczecin. Since 2003 related to the power sector. Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Economy in the Government of Prime Minister Marek Belka supervising the energy sector, fuel, gas and mining. Member of the management boards of Polish Power Grid and BOT. He also managed the work of the supervisory boards related not only to the energy sector, among others X NFI FOKSAL but also in the energy sector in the Bełchatów Power Plant CHP Gorzow, Kamieńsk Wind Power Plant . Since 2009 – the Director for Energy Orange Poland.