Alojzy Nowak
Independent Supervisory Board Member
Alojzy Nowak was appointed as Member of the Company’s Supervisory Board in June 2021. He graduated from the Academy of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw in 1984 (currently: the Warsaw School of Economics). In 1991 he obtained a doctoral, and in 1995 - a PhD degree. In 1992 he studied economics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA. In 1993 he completed studies in banking, finance and insurance at the University of Exeter in Great Britain; in 1996 he studied international economics at the Free University of Berlin, and in 1997 he studied international economics at RUCA (Antwerp). In 2002, he obtained the academic title of professor of economics.
He is a laureate of many awards and distinctions, including Rector's Awards for scientific achievements (annually since 1997), Award of the Minister of Education for the book: "European integration. An opportunity for Poland?" and a book entitled “Banks and households – development dynamics.” He is a member of numerous scientific organizations and program councils of journals, including, as a member of the editorial boards of "Foundations of Management", "Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics", "Yearbook on Polish European Studies" and "Mazovia Regional Studies"; member of the "Gazeta Bankowa" Program Council; reviewer of PWE SA Warsaw. A long-standing member of the "Teraz Polska" Emblem Chapter and a member of the "European Studies" Scientific Council.
He gained knowledge and experience working, among others, as: the head of the Department of International Economic Relations at the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw, the head of the Department of National Economy at the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw, the director of the European Centre of the University of Warsaw, the deputy dean of the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw for International Cooperation, the dean of the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw and Vice-Rector for Scientific Research and Cooperation at the University of Warsaw. For 15 years he was also the head of the Department of Finance at the Kozminski University. Apart from the University of Warsaw, he also delivers lectures in France, Great Britain, USA, Russia, China, Korea, Germany.
In addition, he held or still holds the functions of: an advisor to the prime minister, advisor to the Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Finance, president of the Academic Sports Association in Poland, as well as at the University of Warsaw, a member of the NewConnect advisory committee at the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, a member of the Council of the National Bank of Poland Foundation, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the National Bank of Poland. Over the years, he was or has been a member of supervisory boards, including PTE WARTA S.A., PKO BP S.A., JSW S.A., ZE PAK S.A., PZU S.A., Bank Millennium S.A. He was the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of EUROLOT S.A.
He is a member of the National Development Council, appointed by President Andrzej Duda.
In December 2018, together with 22 prominent economists from around the world – among whom there are 4 Nobel Prize laureates – he became a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of New Structural Economics at the University of Beijing.
