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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering and Environmental Engineering at the Wrocław University of Technology. He completed postgraduate studies
at the Wrocław University of Technology in the field of Management and Marketing
and at the Warsaw University of Technology in the field of Gas Engineering. He completed postgraduate studies in Project Management at the Warsaw School of Economics.
He is a graduate of the Executive MBA studies organized by the Gdansk Foundation
for Management Development in partnership with the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises Aix–Marseille. He has the necessary qualifications to both design and manage works
in the field of gas installations and networks alongside with being the owner of the PRINCE2 Practitioner certificate.
He has extensive professional experience in the field of operation of energy facilities.
He has been connected with the gas industry for over 25 years. He initially worked
as a designer and later as a head of design studio in GAZOPROJKET S.A all while participating in the design of the most important investments in the power industry which included: Transit Gas Pipeline System, gas storage facilities in Mogilno and Wierzchowice, transit gas compressor stations, gas compression station in Hołowczyce, Jeleniów, Krzywa, Kotowo
i Załęcze and the biggest gas interchanges alongside with several dozens of gas stations.
After beginning employment in PGNiG S.A. head office he was involved in the most important strategic projects connected with the diversification of gas supply to Poland such
as the construction of the LNG terminal in Świnoujście and the Poland-Denmark connection project Baltic Pipe.
In recent years he worked for OSP GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. where he was responsible
for the development of the gas transmission system, planning new investment projects
and programs, as well as producing multi-annual development plans responding to the needs of the developing gas market in Poland. At the same time, he held the position of Deputy Director of the Gas Dispatch Centre.
He was awarded with the Bronze Cross of Merit and many industry awards. He also holds
the title of Mining Chief 2nd Grade and is a member of the Scientific and Technical Association of Technicians and Engineers of the Oil and Gas Industry.
On 1 October 2018 he was appointed as Member of the Management Board of Polska Spółka Gazownictwa and on 21 August 2019 he was appointed as Member of the Management Board of the Polska Spółka Gazownictwa responsible for technical and network maintenance.
On July 1, 2020, he was appointed the President of the Management Board of Polska Spółka Gazownictwa.

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.

Mr Józef Węgrecki is a Member of the PKN ORLEN Management Board since March 23rd 2018. Between February 5th and March 23rd 2018 a Member of the Supervisory Board temporarily delegated to perform the duties of the PKN ORLEN Management Board Member responsible for Investments and Procurement.

He is a graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Faculty of Mining and Metallurgical Machines.

Mr Węgrecki holds qualifications to serve on the supervisory boards of companies in which the Polish State Treasury has interests.

In 1978-1990, Józef Węgrecki worked at Zakład Remontowy Energetyki Kraków, where he held the position of Member of the Management Board, Chief Technical Officer. In 1990-1993, Mr Węgrecki served at employee-owned company Remak Opole as its Vice President. From April 1993 to June 2017, he was President and Member of the Management Board of Remak-Krak Sp. z o.o.

In 2017, Mr Węgrecki was appointed Vice President of the Management Board of Energa Wytwarzanie S.A., where his management responsibilities covered water and wind turbine operation, photovoltaic farms, cogeneration and coal-fired power plants, innovation, heating asset acquisitions and setting development directions.

On February 5th 2018, Mr Węgrecki was delegated to temporarily serve as Member of the PKN ORLEN Management Board for Investment and Procurement, and then in April he was appointed Member of the Management Board, Chief Operating Officer.

He is interested in monitoring and analysing the latest technical solutions in the field of power generation: alternative energy sources and their potential industrial applications.

Mr Józef Węgrecki has received a number of awards, including the Galicia Construction Grand Award for his contribution to the advancement of the construction industry, a Badge of Merit for exceptional services to the construction industry, a Gold Medal for long service, and an Honoris Gratia badge for charity and community service.

Founder of Columbus Energy, the largest service provider on the photovoltaic installation market in Poland. He graduated engineering studies in electrical engineering at AGH in Krakow. Since 2007, he gained managerial experience working for Heiderlberg Technology Center, Air BP and MARS Polska. In 2009, he focused on renewable energy sources. For 6 years, he has been successfully developing the Columbus Energy group, which offers modern solutions in the field of renewable energy. Every day a charismatic entrepreneur, visionary, supporter of unconventional solutions, lover of ambitious challenges.