Staff of the Department of Innovative City

Professor Marek Bryx Ph.D.

EDUCATION

Professor of economic sciences - by decision of the President of the Republic of Poland, 31  October 2007
Habilitation - monograph: “Financing the development of housing in cities”, SGH, Warsaw 1999. 10 June 1999, Council of KNoP SGH, approved dec. no. BCK-II-H-1009/99 of the Central Commission for Scientific Titles and Degree
PhD - Rationalization of Costs and Prices of Multi-family Houses, 12 July 1983 EP SGPiS, currently SGH
MBA - 1992 International School of Management, February 1992, present: Kozminski University
Master of Economics, 19 June 1996, EP, Economics of Construction and Investments at SGPiS, currently SGH

FUNCTIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY

currently

• Full professor: from 2008
• Head of Innovative City Unit, from 1999 to 2023
• SGH Rector’s Plenipotentiary for the development of the SGH campus from 2016
• former
• Vice-Rector of the Warsaw School of Economics: 2008-2016
• SGH professor: 2000-2008
• Dean of e part-time studies: 2005-2008
• Head of Postgraduate Studies: Investment Manager: 1984-1988
• assistant professor: 1983-1990
• Senior assistant: 1978-1983

NON-UNIVERSITY, PARAREL EMPLOYMENT CONTRATCS

currently

• 2004 - Member of the INTA Management Board, Paris
• 2013 - PFRN Advisory Committee
• 2015 - Member of the National Spatial Development Committee of Polish academy of Science
• former
• 2001-2004: Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Infrastructure
• 2001-2003 President of the Housing and Urban Development Office
• 1995-1996: Advisor to the President of BGŻ SA
• 1994-1995: Vice President of Polbank SA
• 1992-1994: advisor to the President of PBG SA
• 1990-1991: Advisor to the President of the RRiDH Fund
• 1989-1990: Advisor to the Minister of GPiB, Organizer of Housing Development Bank

SUBJECTS IN THE CURRICULUM

In English:

• 234207-0044 Green Urban Regeneration Projects
• 290241-0044 master’s seminar
• 190241-0044 Undergraduate Seminar

Seminars topics: Original student ideas and: the real estate market, investing, housing policy, property management, real estate financing, property taxes…, urban revitalization (economic, financial and managerial aspects)

In Polish

• 131669-0044 Real Estate Market (e-learning)
• 139760-0044 Fundamentals of Real Estate Management
• 234139-0044 Managing Investment Projects (e-learning)
• 237280-0044 Residential Property Management
• 290241-0044 Master seminar
• 190241-0044 Undergraduate Seminar

LECTURES CONDUCTED AT FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES

• 2018, 26-30 March, National Taiwan University, College of Management:
• Housing Policy in Socialist and Non-socialist Poland
• Corporate Social Responsibility, Hosted by Professor Yan-Shing Chen
• Individual Consultation: Local authority’s responsibility for sustainable city development
• 2015, August - October : North-Eastern Illinois University:
• Econ314: Economic Thoughts, module 1: New Economy: Eco-Innovation in Cities;
• Econ 377: Real Estate Market
• 2015, 20  October: University of Malta; Faculty for the Built Environment, for students of Architecture and Urban Design: Warsaw School of Economics and Its Innovative City Project
• 2014, 27 March: School of Urban & Regional  Planning, Florida Atlantic University: Urban Planning in Poland

Head of Innovative City Unit, from 2023

Anna Szelągowska - Professor at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.  In 2003 she received her PhD in economics at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics and in 2012 she achieved her Habilitation degree. In 2021 she was awarded the Professor’s title in social sciences by Polish President. Her research focuses on finance and banking (particularly determinants of banking sectors development, branch banking, urban banking, fringe banking), real estate finance, social housing policy, silver economy and financial misselling. At SGH Warsaw School of Economics she teaches postgraduate and undergraduate courses in banking, real estate finance, financial frauds, financial market innovations. She is also supervisor of MSc and PhD dissertations in the above areas. She received five Technical University of Radom Rector’s Excellence Awards for Research (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) and five SGH Rector’s Excellence Awards for Research (2013, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021) and Organizational activity (2019).
Prof. Anna Szelągowska presented scientific papers in more than 100 domestic and international conference. She is the author of more than 200 publications, including 10 books and 12 books that she edited. Reviewer of more than 100 books, more than 200 papers. She is the author of expert opinions for such institutions as Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Bureau of Research at the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Polish National Centre for Research and Development, National Agency for Academics Exchange, European Commission, Warsaw District Court and other public administrative institutions.

Courses

• Banking (course number: 121030-1226)
• Reatail banking (e-learning) (course number: 132029-1226)
• Real Estate Financing (e-learning) (course number: 238159-1226)
• Innovations on financial markets (e-learning) (course number: 239439-1226)
• Financial frauds and financial misappropriation (e-learning) (course number: 230539-1226)
• Financial Frauds (e-learning) (course number: 230538-1226)
• Bachelor’s Seminar (course number: 190001-1226)
• Master’s Seminar (course number: 290001-1226)​

Katarzyna Sobiech-Grabka, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Innovative Cities Dept., she graduated from the Poznan School of Economics and also completed the School of Academic Tutors (Collegium Wratislaviense).
She is an author and co-author of many publications and papers regarding issues related to public-private partnerships (PPP) as well as infrastructure development and urban regeneration in Poland.  She gained recognition as an expert in the field of PPP by many institutions (including: European Investment Bank, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, Institute of Urban Development, Ministry of Development) that invite her to be a conference speaker, advisor, jury member and researcher. At the beginning of April 2019 she was appointed a member of the Komitet Prognoz ‘Polska 2000 Plus’ of the Polish Academy of Science (PAN), for the term 2019-2022. In 2016-2018 she served as Vice-chair in Foundation Centre PPP.​

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Dominika Paulina Brodowicz is an assistant Professor at the Department of Innovative City at Warsaw School of Economics. Graduate of Dublin Institute of Technology (PhD) and Warsaw School of Economics (MA) and New York University (Institute on U.S. Culture and Society program). She specializes in green and smart cities, tangible and intangible heritage of cities and the social responsibility of investors in the real estate market. Author of projects and scholarship holder, including National Science Center Poland, The National Centre for Research and Development, Horizon 2020, ZEIT-Stiftung, United States Department of State and the Kosciuszko Foundation. Member of the Monitoring Committee of the Regional Operational Program of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship for year 2014-2022. Head of the Cooperative Heritage Lab in Warsaw’s Praga as part of the OpenHeritage project, Horizon 2020. Co-funder of dr2.ai think tank.

Mirosław Czekaj, PhD, Associate Professor
 
He is an employee of the Collegium  of Business Administration the Warsaw School of Economics, employed as an assistant professor at the Department of Innovative City. He specializes in scientific issues related to budget planning and financial reporting of local government units, in particular cities. They relate to areas and issues such as:

• tools for effective management of the city’s finances in the field of long-term planning
• implementation of tasks based on the task-based budget mechanism,
• financing of the city’s development based on debt
• city’s debt policy and analysis of the city’s creditworthiness
• information value of the city’s financial statements and the city’s financial image on a consolidated basis
• use of analytical systems such as Business Intelligence (BI) in city finance management.

Dr. M. Czekaj is a statutory auditor and his professional activity is related to the area of finance, in particular public finance and banking. Currently, he is also the Treasurer of the City of Warsaw, responsible for the arrangement, development and analysis of the largest budget of a local government unit in Poland, the value of which exceeds PLN 20 billion. He is also responsible for the financial reporting of the Capital City of Warsaw, which is also a public interest entity, conducting consolidated reporting for over a thousand entities. Previously, for nearly twelve years, he was the Treasurer of the City of Szczecin. In the field of banking, for seven years I was the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Supervisory Board of PKO Bank Polski S.A. supervising the process of financial reporting, internal audit, risk management, compliance management and external audit. For nearly three years he was the Vice-President of the Management Board of Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego Bank Państwowy. for the processes of financial support for local governments and restructuring.

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Aleksandra Jadach-Sepioło is an adiunct in the Innovative City Unit at Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). Deputy Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development. Recently she has coordinated advisory projects in revitalisation areas in 23 model cities in Poland. Project manager “EDINA - Energy-efficient development of special revitalisation zones and urban areas”. She combines work at the Institute with teaching and research at the Warsaw School of Economics.
2010-2012 she was a manager of the project “Urban regeneration – organization and financing”, co-financed from the European Social Fund, was also involved in the project “Urban Regeneration in Poland as a Method of Preserving Material and Spiritual Heritage and a Factor of Sustainable Development”, in URBACT thematic network NODUS (Linking Urban Renewal and Regional Spatial Planning) and in SATURN (“Vocational training for practitioners in urban regeneration” – Leonardo da Vinci). She is an author and co-author of many publications and articles regarding issues of urban regeneration in Poland and also a regular speaker at conferences and workshops concerning management and financing of urban regeneration projects.
Research fields: urban regeneration, urban development and urban policy.

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