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Katarzyna Szwarc is the High Representative of the Minister of Finance for Strategy of Capital Market Development. She holds an MPA from the London School of Economics and a Masters in Law from the University of Warsaw. She acquired her professional experience working as, among others, the Head of Policy & Regulation at the Polish Energy Exchange and the Policy & Government Affairs Manager at the New York Stock Exchange (intercontinental Exchange) in London. She was also a Policy Fellow at the LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment with the focus on sustainable finance and just transition.

Dr. Marek Dietl is the CEO of GPW  (Warsaw Stock Exchange) and the economic adviser to the President of Poland. He has spent almost 20 years in the consulting and venture capital industries. He collected experience as a non-executive board member of more than 25 organizations.

Marek Dietl frequently undertakes community and academic activities. He used to serve as a mediator at the arbitration court of the Financial Supervision Commission and adviser to the President of Energy Regulation Office. Marek Dietl  is also an assistant professor at the SGH-Warsaw School of Economics.

Michał Stępień – in UBS in Poland since 2008, before becoming General Manager of Poland Business Solutions Centers in 2013 and Country Head in 2017 held positions of COO, IT Service Delivery Head, Legal and Compliance Head and Service Delivery Head. Michal has over 15 years of leadership experience. Prior to joining UBS, he worked in international companies such as Royal AHOLD and DELL. Michal is qualified Attorney in Law.

Fabrice Filliez is a career diplomat. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, he served as Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore and the Sultanate of Brunei from 2018 to 2022. Previously, he served in Berne for five years at the Swiss State Secretariat for International Financial Matters with the title of Ambassador in charge of multilateral tax matters where he was responsible for representing Switzerland’s interests in important multilateral tax negotiations, in particular at the Global Forum on Tax Transparency and Exchange of Information. Other positions during his career included appointments at the Swiss Embassy in London, at the Directorate for European Affairs in Berne, at the Swiss Mission to the European Union in Brussels, as well as at the Directorate for Public International Law in Berne, postings where he was actively involved in various Swiss-EU negotiations. Fabrice Filliez graduated from the University of Geneva with a Degree in Law and holds a Master’s Degree in European Law from the University of Brussels, Belgium.