Postgraduate Studies in Corporate Governance, Risk and Compliance Management
Postgraduate Studies in Corporate Governance, Risk and Compliance Management is aimed at enhancing the skills of managers and professionals working primarily in legal, compliance, risk and audit departments and other control functions as well as company executives.
Innovative courses – organised in form of symposiums, case studies and Oxford style debates to promote engagement
Experienced lecturers – academic teachers and business professionals who bridge the gap between theory and practice
Beneficial connection – between the audience and practitioners from public and private sectors who share knowledge
Why study?
- The courses will help students understand ethics and compliance principles, corporate governance, anti-money laundering and risk management concepts, thus strengthening their ability to respond professionally to the legal and regulatory requirements.
- Real-life business cases from different business sectors will be used during the courses to increase practitioners’ awareness of corporate governance, risk and compliance management.
- Graduates will be equipped to take ethics, organizational culture and compliance program to the next level and use corporate governance and compliance program to enhance business performance.
- The programme will prepare graduates for the complex realities of today’s marketplace, where teams frequently work with diverse laws, customs and markets.
Are they for me?
Postgraduate Studies in Corporate Governance, Risk and Compliance Management is recommended to any employees wanting to enhance their knowledge about ethics, compliance, corporate governance and risk management, in particular to:
- lawyers and legal practitioners,
- compliance officers, managers, directors and their deputies,
- supervisory board members,
- risk managers,
- internal audit employees,
- regulatory representatives,
- accountants,
- financial crime prevention experts,
- money laundering reporting and prevention officers,
- AML and financial crime investigators.
Curriculum
- Introduction to civil, commercial, data privacy and crime law – 10 h
- Introduction to finance, accounting and tax risk – 6 h
- Business ethics and corporate governance – 10 h
- Strategic and financial analysis of the business – 5 h
- Risk identification, assessment and management – 15 h
- Internal and external audits, controls and investigation– how to be ready? – 10 h
- Forensic audit and investigation – 5 h
- Regulatory bodies – 5 h
- Corporate Social Responsibility – 5 h
- Transnational criminal law – analysis of UK Bribery Act, FCPA, Sapin II and German Anti-Corruption Law – 4 h
- Compliance processes – 20 h
- The individual as compliance manager – case studies bases on pharma, financial, insurance, energy and FMCG examples – 20 h
- How to design “best in class” internal compliance and risk management program – case studies bases on pharma, financial, insurance, energy and FMCG examples – 20 h
- Dawn raid training – action plan when antitrust authorities come knocking – 5 h
- Seminar – 10 h
- Third party risk management – 10 h
Head of studies
Dean and Vice-Dean of Master Studies at the Warsaw School of Economics, Head of Business Finance Faculty, Professor at the Local Government Economics and Finance Faculty. Graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics and completed all his degrees there. Acted as local World Bank expert, member of ATF mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and chairman of the board of the Polish Teachers’ Union. His fields of interest and research cover finance, business finance, economic and financial analysis, financial planning, managerial accounting and cost accounting - effective decision making connected with acqusition and management of financial resources. Author of over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books.
Lecturers
Head of the Department of Management Theory at the Warsaw School of Economics, head of Postgraduate Studies in Product and Service Management at the Department of Management Theory at the Warsaw School of Economics. He specializes in corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and strategic management. Scholarship holder of, among others, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the Polish-American Fulbright Commission, Soros Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation and the Foundation for Polish Science.
Legal advisor, graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. She gained her professional experience working in an international law firm providing services to foreign entrepreneurs operating in Poland, as well as in the financial sector, providing ongoing legal services to financial institutions – banks and loan companies. Experienced specialist and auditor in the field of personal data protection law.
A seasoned compliance manager in Forensic and Integrity Services EY, focused on implementing ethics and compliance systems ensuring compliance with national and international anti-corruption laws and ethical standards. Her areas of expertise include business ethics, corruption, business process optimization, internal controls and change management.
Master of Laws with over twenty years of experience in the area of compliance in the banking sector. In 1999, he worked in the Legal Department of Citibank Poland S.A. In 2000–2002, he held the position of Compliance Officer and Lawyer at Deutsche Bank Polska S.A., where he created one of the first compliance departments in Poland from scratch.
Legal advisor managing the Legal, Compliance, and HR Department at Wonga.pl and Novum Finance (both part of the Kruk S.A. capital group), companies offering online financial products. Author of numerous publications, speaker, and mentor at events gathering the community of entrepreneurs and start-up owners. Winner of the Rising Stars 2016 award, GC Powerlist Central and Eastern Europe in 2018 and 2019, and Top 25 Women Lawyers in Business by Forbes 2023.
Certified auditor, certified fraud prevention (CFE – Certified Fraud Examiner). He is a member of the American association ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners) and a member of the Polish Chamber of Statutory Auditors. He specializes in forensic accounting and anti-fraud. He has experience in carrying out follow-up audits, investigative, financial and internal audits.
Dean and Vice-Dean of Master Studies at the Warsaw School of Economics, Head of Business Finance Faculty, Professor at the Local Government Economics and Finance Faculty.
Attorney-at-law, regional compliance manager in an American pharmaceutical company, responsible for all compliance processes in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Previously responsible for legal services and compliance in eleven markets of Central and Eastern Europe in a Swiss pharmaceutical concern. She also gained experience in the Polish pharmaceutical industry and law firms specializing in providing services to business entities.
Andrea Rey received the Ph.D. degree in Management from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. Andrea is an asssistant Professor in Accounting at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), where he teaches “Startup Valuation”. He was Visiting scholar at the Universidad de Murcia (Spain) and at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). Andrea is the author of numerous publications on accounting, sustainable governance, and business valuation. Finally, he is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) from 2015.
Assistant professor at the Department of Management Theory, secretary and lecturer at Postgraduate Studies in Public Relations and Strategic Communications in Companies. Previously associated with the Responsible Business Forum, where she was a promotion and portal coordinator. He specializes in the issues of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, in particular in relation to strategic management, business models and non-financial data reporting.
Manager in Correspondent Banking Transaction Monitoring department in ING Hubs. Previously Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crimes Compliance Officer at Elavon Financial Services DAC. During her AML career since 2015 she supervised resolution plans of problems related to AML compliance, performed investigations, and submitted Suspicious Activity Reports. She was responsible for coordinating audit responses of operational departments and proactively improved procedures and controls, including in the field of operational AML and performed intragroup outsourcing assessments.
Head of Linklaters’ TMT/IP practice in Warsaw, specializing in all aspects of intellectual property, IT, data protection and e-commerce law. Before joining Linklaters, he gained professional experience in several law firms and international organizations in Poland, Germany and Belgium.
Szymon has worked on compliance, contractual and transactional matters for international and local clients across various sectors, including banks, investment funds, insurance companies, brokerage houses, real estate developers, healthcare service providers, pharmaceutical, chemical, fintech, media, technology, e–commerce, gaming and marketing companies. Szymon has a strong transactional experience, focusing primarily on IP (copyrights, design rights, trademarks, know-how, software rights, Internet domains), IT, data protection and cybersecurity. He also has extensive experience in technology M&As. He regularly advises organizations on all aspects of European and Polish privacy and data protection laws, and has been involved in designing and implementing group-wide GDPR implementation programmes. Szymon assists clients in preparing data protection policies and procedures, drafting and negotiating data processing agreements, assessing and notifying personal data breaches to the supervisory authorities and data subjects, as well as representing clients in enforcement actions taken by the supervisory authorities.
Attorney-at-law and partner in the Warsaw office of Linklaters, where she heads the competition law practice. He has many years of experience in the application of national and EU merger control rules, advises on anti-competitive agreements, including cartels, abuse of a dominant position, state aid, as well as other issues of European law, including provisions on the free movement of goods and services. He represents clients before the Polish competition authority (Office of Competition and Consumer Protection), Polish courts and the European Commission.
Currently associate professor, head of the Risk and Insurance Department at the Institute of Risk and Financial Markets at the Warsaw School of Economics. A graduate of the Lublin University of Technology in the field of Management and Marketing. Master’s studies carried out on an individual basis (lectures at UMCS and KUL in Lublin).
Attorney at law, partner at Tomasik Jaworski Sp. p. (TJSP). He specializes in comprehensive consultancy for entrepreneurs from regulated industries (pharmaceutical, medical, nutrition) and in advising on compliance matters and criminal proceedings. Before establishing TJSP, he led the pharmaceutical law team in the Warsaw office of a renowned international law firm for several years.
Employee of the Warsaw School of Economics. A graduate of Banking and Finance as well as Management and Marketing of the Warsaw School of Economics, Linkoping University in Sweden. Scholarship holder of the DISP program in Copenhagen and the University of Genoa. A graduate of the EMBA program at the French Institute of Management (IFG). He has training and consulting experience.
Legal advisor at the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Warsaw. She gained her many years of experience, among others working for almost 10 years in a leading international law firm based in London, and previously in a renowned Polish law firm. For 4 years, he has been cooperating with the largest telecommunications operator in Poland, where he manages the Compliance area, and at the same time is responsible for the entire compliance processes of the company, including the preparation and implementation of procedures and other compliance tools. S
Admission
Recruitment for the 8th edition of the studies has been completed.
Recruitment for the next 9th edition will start in April-May 2025.
Documents required during recruitment:
- agreement on the terms of payment for studies,
- document TEMPLATE AGREEMENT application form (completed when registering for studies), a copy of a diploma confirming completion of at least first cycle studies,
Attention:
Persons who have completed studies at a foreign university should provide a certificate stating that their diploma entitles them to undertake postgraduate studies at SGH.
NOSTRIFICATION AND RECOGNITION OF THE DIPLOMA
The conditions for completing the programme are:
- preparation of a final disseration connected with the course profile under the supervision of allocated dissertation supervisor.
Costs
Total tuition fees are PLN 8300. Students are eligible for payment in two installments:
- I installment: PLN 5,000 payable during admission
- II installment: PLN 3,300.
The price includes course participation and materials for individual home-study as well as the issuance of a graduation certificate.
Contact details
Coordinator of studies
Wioletta Krasuska–Wojtkowska
tel.: +48 22 564 93 02
e-mail: wkrasu@sgh.waw.pl
Head of studies
prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Marecki
e-mail: kmarec@sgh.waw.pl
Postage address
Warsaw School of Economics
ul. Madalińskiego 6/8, building M, room 301
02-513 Warsaw, Poland
- Online courses
- Courses take place as virtual meetings once or twice a month on Saturdays and Sundays from 8 am to 5 pm CET.
- Total tuition fees are PLN 8300 (possible installments).
prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Marecki
e-mail: kmarec@sgh.waw.pl
Wioletta Krasuska–Wojtkowska
tel.: +48 22 564 93 02
e-mail: wkrasu@sgh.waw.pl