Professor Jacek Prokop, PhD

Vice Rector for International Relations
Vice Rector for International Relations and Head of the Department of Business Economics. A graduate of the Foreign Trade Faculty of SGPiS and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the US (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA), where he also received a doctoral degree. Between 1991 and 1998, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA. He defended his habilitation (postdoctoral) dissertation on „Contribution to the theory of assuming control over joint-stock companies” [Przyczynek do teorii przejmowania kontroli nad spółkami akcyjnymi] at SGH and received the Minister of Education Award for it in 2003. His research focuses on microeconomics, analysis of market structures (industrial organisation), cartels and market monopolisation, as well as mergers and acquisitions. In addition to his academic work, he has been involved in the practice of business; between 1998 and 1999 he was employed as a principal consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Washington, DC (USA), and from 2004 to 2015 he was an independent member of the Supervisory Board of Pekao Pioneer PTE S.A. in Warsaw. Since 2021, he has served on the board of Partnership for International Management, where he is responsible for the region of Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Jacek Prokop