32nd EuroPOWER Energy Conference

Graduated from the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and received a scholarship in quantum optics from the National Institute of Standards and Technologies in Washington (DC), where he worked under the lead of William D. Phillips, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics. During his studies, he also specialised in economics, with particular emphasis on market organisation under the lead of Professor Jean Tirole, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics in 2014. He also studied international economics at the University of Louvain La Neuve and was awarded a Master`s degree at the Warsaw School of Economics. He defended his PhD dissertation at the University of Warsaw. In the past, he worked as a professor, teaching change management, economics, market organisation and industrial strategy at the University of Warsaw, Collegium Civitas, Oxford Programme on Modern Poland. He co-authored the concept of effective change management in an enterprise, described in the book Zarządzanie zmianą. Od strategii do działania, he also wrote Od restrukturyzacji do modernizacji. Opóźniona transformacja polskiego sektora elektroenergetycznego w latach 1990-2009. He began his professional career in the Office of the Committee of European Integration, in the team of Minister Jan Kułakowski, responsible for conducting accession negotiations with the European Union, where he led an analytical team and was directly responsible for the area of energy and transport. Later on, he carried out the modernisation processes in numerous Polish companies, where he supported adaptation to the challenges of the European and global market. He promoted European cooperation in the field of industrial changes and adaptation of European industry to the challenges of globalisation within the framework of the European University of Labour and the Dublin Foundation. He created the governmental programme for the development of electro-mobility in Poland, described for the first time as a concept in New Electricity and New Cars, a book written in 2013-2015, together with Prof. Leszek Jesień. He also serves as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Electro-mobility Programme. Since 1 January 2016, he has been working as the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Energy, where he has been directly responsible for technological development and innovation in the energy sector, implementation of climate and energy policy in the fuel and gas sector, international relations with countries and international organisations. His duties also included supervising the participation of the state in the largest Polish energy companies in the oil and gas sector, such as Orlen, Lotos and PGNiG. He was the initiator of the “Electro-mobility Development Plan” and then piloted the creation of a law on electro-mobility and alternative fuels, thanks to which these forms of transport will be able to develop dynamically. On the 27th of April 2018, he was appointed as the Plenipotentiary for the Presidency of the COP 24 Summit.

Doctor of Technical Sciences in the field of electrical power engineering and energy economics. He has associated his career with the energy sector from the very beginning. At the Energy Regulatory Office since 2004, recently – since 2014 – as the deputy director of the Department of Market Development and Consumer Issues. Civil servant official (since 2007).
Rafał Gawin has experience in supervising energy companies, particularly in the field of financial reporting and audit as well as investment and development.
He has wide experience in international cooperation. Rafał Gawin was 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. He was also an expert at Florence School of Regulation on the development and operation of regional electricity markets. He has also repeatedly represented the Energy Regulatory Office on the international forum.
In 2013, he was a national expert with the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) in Lubljana, where as a member of the market monitoring group he worked, inter alia, on the Agency’s report on the assessment of national energy markets, on Regional Initiatives and issues related to unplanned energy flows. He was also responsible for cooperation with national energy regulators.
A lecturer. As an expert in the Energy Law Act Rafał Gawin is an author of publications and studies on the functioning of electricity markets, including the grid access principles, balancing and regional markets. Co-author of i.a. commentary on Polish Energy Law Act (2010 and 2016).
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki appointed Rafał Gawin President of the Energy Regulatory Office on 24th July 2019.

A graduate of the – Faculty of Law and Administration University of Warsaw, postgraduate studies at the Warsaw University of Technology – Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering, the L.Kozminski School of Entrepreneurship and Management and at the University of Warsaw – Faculty of Management.
He worked at the central and local government. He advises in obtaining funds from the EU and participated in the preparation and implementation of investments in the energy sector.

Since 2002, Leszek Hołda’s professional career has been in the B2B market. Recently, he has held two positions: Head of Key and Corporate Account Sales Department at Orange Polska, and CEO of Integrated Solutions. As Head of Key and Corporate Account Sales Department, he implemented the largest, strategic projects strengthening the position of the Orange Polska Group in the top business market segment. As CEO of Integrated Solutions – Orange Polska’s ICT integrator – he was responsible for the company’s strategy and development, and supervised the implementation of key projects. Under his direction, within five years Integrated Solutions transitioned from a start-up into a leading player on the IT market, seeing a several dozen per cent rise in revenue each year. In 2009–2012, Leszek Hołda was also head of the Orange UEFA Euro 2012 project, where he managed a team of over 1,000 people responsible for technological support in Poland and for marketing rights activation in 11 European countries. Leszek Hołda completed an MBA Programme at the Warsaw University of Technology Business School. Earlier, he graduated from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków and the Kraków University of Economics.

Graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration and the Post-graduate Intellectual Property Law Studies at the University of Warsaw. In 2005, completed barrister training at Warsaw Bar Chamber.
Worked with law firms until 2015. Involved with Ernst & Young in 2000-2003. Expert at the Jagiellonian Institute in 2011-2012. President of the Security-Development-Energy Initiatives Foundation since 2014. Lecturer to post-graduate students at Collegium Civitas, Warsaw University of Technology and Helena Chodkowska University of Technology and Economics. Specialised primarily in energy law and European competition law.

Jerzy Kwieciński is a graduate of Faculty of Materials Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology and holds a degree of Doctor in the field of technical science. He also completed a postgraduate course for managers at the Warsaw School of Economics and an international Master of Business Administration programme run by the University of Antwerp, the University of Staffordshire, the Free University of Brussels and the University of Warsaw. Jerzy Kwieciński also has experience in academic and R&D work, which he gained, among others at the Warsaw University of Technology and as a visiting professor at Brunel University of West London.
Mr Kwieciński has more than 30 years of international experience in strategic planning, management of large organisations, programmes and projects in the public, private, non-governmental and scientific research sectors, including energy sector.
From 1993 to 2004, he worked for the European Commission Representation in Poland, where his duties included management of programmes and projects financed by the European Union. He also participated in the works preparing Poland for membership in the European Union. Between 2004 and 2005 he was the President of Europejskie Centrum Przedsiębiorczości Sp. z o.o, where in 2008-2015 he acted as a Vice-President of the Management Board.
In 2005, Mr Kwieciński took a position of the Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Regional Development, headed by Minister Grażyna Gęsicka, where he coordinated the national development policy and cohesion policy, including the work on the National Development Strategy for 2007–2015 and the National Cohesion Strategy for 2007–2013.
In 2008–2015, he served as President of the Management Board of JP Capital Group sp. z o.o., specialising in preparation and implementation of projects and innovations, including establishing and running start-ups. In that period he was also head of  Fundacja Europejskie Centrum Przedsiębiorczości (European Entrepreneurship Centre Foundation).
Since 2015, he has been a member of the National Development Council, appointed by President Andrzej Duda.
In November 2015, he was appointed the first deputy of the Deputy Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in the Ministry of Development in the government of Prime Minister Beata Szydło. From January 2018, he held the office of the Minister of Investment and Development in the government of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and from September 2019 he served also as the Minister of Finance. He held both functions until November 15, 2019. He worked on, among others preparation and implementation of the Strategy for Responsible Development and implementation of cohesion policy.

He has held a position of the Sales Director in ATOS Group Polska (before called Bull Group Polska) since September 2012. He was responsible for building strategy, creating product’s offer and sales development in energy&utility and public sector. He was acquiring new sales areas. Moreover, he was building new streams of partnership sales.
In years 2005-2011 he was responsible for sales in companies from IT sector i.a.: Innovation Technology Group SA and WASKO SA. Earlier, he was associated with PKN Orlen SA where he was in charge of sales’ support coordination in all Local Offices of retail trading.

He graduated from MBA Energetyka managerial studies at Lazarski University, international relations at the University of Warsaw and managerial studies at the Warsaw School of Economics.
In 2018-2020 he was the Vice President of the Management Board for development at ORLEN Serwis S.A. and the President of Board of Directors at ORLEN Service Lietuva. From 2020 he is Member of the Supervisory Board of Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa S.A.
In 2016-2018 he was the President of the Management Board of the Logistic Operator for Liquid Fuels. After he worked for PKN ORLEN S.A. as the Executive Director in charge of logistics.
Between 2006 and 2016 he was the Deputy Mayor of the City of Ostrołęka. Before he was also the Deputy Director for Foreign Investment and Economic Development in the Department of Regional Development Strategy in the Marshal’s Office of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship.