Authorities and Staff of Institute of Banking

Education:

• 1993 - Master’s degree (Warsaw School of Economics, Faculty of Finance and Statistics) 
• 1996 - Post-graduate Studies in Administration (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law) 
• 1997 - Ph.D. in Economics 
• 2000 - Post-doctoral degree in Economics
• 2004 - Title of Professor of Economic Sciences Present:
• Director of the Institute of Banking, Warsaw School of Economics 
• President of the Committee on Financial Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences

Formerly:

Member of the Scientific Board (Collegium of Socio-Economics)
Research interests: empirical research in the fields of: financial stability, banking supervision, prudential regulations, banking operations, European banking system
Courses taught: Retail Banking, Banking Operations, International Financial Institutions, Monetary Policy, Financial Markets, Regulation and supervision of financial markets

Graduated the finance and banking faculty and the doctoral studiues from Warsaw School of Economics. Under the guidance 
of prof. dr hab. Jerzy Nowakowski in 2012, she defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Mergers, acquisitions, divestments 
and tender offer in Poland”. A member of the Polish Association of Finance and Banking.
 
FIELDS OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST
Sources of startup funding and financing, analyzing and learning mechanisms regarding both the selection of financing sources 

• PhD in Economics. She obtained her academic degree (with honors) in 2017 at the Banking Institute of the Warsaw School of Economics. Ms Kozińska is also a graduate of BA and MA studies at the same university.
• Her research interests include in particular the area of financial stability and financial safety net (with particular emphasis on the crisis management) as well as risk management. She conducts research also in the field of banking for wealthy people (private banking).

Alumnus of SGH Warsaw School of Economics and CEMS MIM programme at National University of Singapore (NUS). Participated in the exchange programme with The Chinese University of Hong Kong (香港中文大學) as well as in two international seminars on central banking conducted by Deutsche Bundesbank and Hochschule der Deutschen Bundesbank.
 
During studies, actively participated in Warsaw School of Economics International Committee (Vice President) and in student associations: CEMS Club Singapore (Vice President), Investors Club (British-Polish Investment Alliance Project

Alumnus of SGH Warsaw School of Economics at the Faculty of Finance and Accounting. In 2022, she defended her master thesis entitled “The response of the financial safety net to instability in the banking sector” with honors. For two years she received Rector’s Scholarship for the best students for high academic results.  
During her studies she took part in project Żagle Biznesu SGH, Santander Universidades Academy and M&A Talent Lab. 
Since 2019 professionally associated with mBank S.A. 

Graduate of finance and accounting at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. In 2018, she defended her master’s thesis entitled “Manipulating information on the Polish capital market”. She also completed postgraduate studies -  pedagogical qualification for teaching work at the WSB University in Toruń.

Head of the Retail and Corporate Banking Department at the Banking Institute at the Warsaw School of Economics. Graduate of the
Warsaw School of Economics with double Master’s Degree in Finance and Banking and Management and Marketing. He completed a full-time doctoral program at the Warsaw School of Economics, where he received a PhD in economics in 2003. 

Dr Andrzej Krysiak is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics (Faculty of Finance and Statistics). He received a PhD degree in the College of Economic Analysis at the Warsaw School of Economics. He also took a Tempus scholarship at the School of Management a Computer Science of the Sheffield City Polytechnic (UK). He was working as a an assistant the Institute of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences and then (since 2004) as an assistant professor in the Institute of Banking at the Warsaw School of Economics.

Marcin Mikołajczyk is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics. During his studies he took a one-year scholarship at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i.Br.
From 2000, he was professionally associated with the SGH Banking Institute. He lectures and exercises in the field of: banking, financial institutions and the institutional environment of the financial sector. Also he is a very active promoter of BA and MA theses.

Izabela Pruchnicka-Grabias graduated from SGH Warsaw School of Economics in 2000. (Master’s degree in finance and banking). In 2003 she received her PhD in economics at the same university. In 2014 she achieved her Habilitation degree and in 2016 her habilitation book was awarded with the First Prize in the Competition for the Best Habilitation Thesis on Finance organized regularly by the National Bank of Poland. Since 2015 she is an Associate Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics and the Head of the Investment Banking Unit.

Piotr Czapiewski graduated the finance and banking faculty and the doctoral studies from Warsaw School of Economics.
He has been employed at Warsaw School of Economics since 2007, currently as a senior lecturer.
Piotr is a CFA charterholder, member of CFA Insitute and CFA Society Poland, and a holder of an investment adviser license, granted by Polish regulator.
He works as an Equity Portfolio Manager in Aviva PTE Aviva BZ WBK S.A. Earlier he was a senior analyst at PTE Warta S.A.
 

Piotr Kuszewski is assistant professor at the Warsaw School of Economics. His research focuses on strategic implications of regulation, industrial organization of financial markets, and role of smart contracts on financial markets. Professor Kuszewski teaches game theory, credit risk management, and mutual funds portfolio management. At the Warsaw School of Economics Kuszewski is also Head of Postgraduate Studies of Compliance. Piotr Kuszewski holds PhD degree in economics. He is graduate of Northwestern University and the Warsaw School of Economics.
 

Graduate of European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/O (1999 Business Administration), PhD in Economics 

Prof. Bień participated in numerous programs and trainings in the fields of: finance, banking and insurance, evaluation of investment projects, financing and settlement of investment projects, conducted in financial institutions, e.g. Chase Manhattan, Irving Trust, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Lloyd Bank, Midland Bank, PKO S.A. (New York branch), Bank Handlowy and stock exchanges in: Lyon, Frankfurt, New York, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, Lisbon and Zurich.
 

Area of expertise:

•  Consumer Finance and Fintech – products & market developments, credit policies, scorings, customers profiles & preferences
• Consumer protection in the financial market
• Strategic issues in mergers and acquisitions

Professional experience (outside SGH):

He holds a Doctorate in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, an Executive MBA of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Warsaw, is an alumnus of INSEAD and holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He also completed numerous programs in the field of banking and management, among others at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, SDA Bocconi and the Singularity University.

Associate Professor, Head of Financial Risk Management Unit at Banking Institute, lectures Investment Banking, 
Market and Operational Risk Management, author of approx. 140 scientific papers and books, member of the Scientific Council of Collegium of Socio-Economics and the PhD’s commission, Head of Structured Finance Team at Bank Millennium SA (previously worked for Bankgesellschaft Berlin, Credit Lyonnais and Creditanstalt), member of the supervisory board of Grupa Kęty SA, Expert of PARP. His scientific interests focus on:

Paweł Kulpaka was graduated from Warsaw School of Economics in 1999. He obtained two masters degree: (1) Banking and Finance, and (2) International Economics and Political Relations. In 2004 he gained his Ph. D. In 2014 he obtained the post-doctoral degree (habilitation) in economic sciences. Since 1999 he has been employed at Warsaw School of Economics (1999 – 2014, Institute of International Economics, Collegium of World Economy, December 2014 – current, Institute of Banking, Collegium of Socio-Economics), where he currently works as a Associate Professor.

• Lada Voloshchenko-Holda graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (2001). She received a PhD in economics (specialization: quantitative methods, models and information technologies in economics) at the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (2008). Before she left Ukraine for Poland she worked for about ten years as a senior research officer at the Institute of Economics and Forecasting at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. Her major areas of research included foreign trade, energy and the agricultural sector.