Speakers

Teresa Czerwińska was appointed the Vice President of the European Investment Bank in March 2020. In this role, alongside looking after the constituency countries (Poland, Hungary, Croatia) she is responsible for Eastern Partnership countries: Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. She also oversees the matters of science, education, innovation, digital economy, and the InvestEU programme. Prior to becoming EIB Vice-President, Mrs Czerwińska was a member of the management board of the National Bank of Poland, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Poland, when she was also a Governor of the European Investment Bank. Earlier she held the position of the Undersecretary of State and was responsible for the state budget at the Ministry of Finance. In the years 2015 - 2017, she was the Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Teresa Czerwińska is a Professor of Economics at the Warsaw University specialising in finance and risk management. She obtained the habilitation degree at the Faculty of Management of the University of Gdańsk in 2010.