Teaching staff
Prof. MARCIN CZUPRYNA
Marcin Czupryna, PhD is a Head of Financial Markets Department in Krakow University of Economics. He holds a PhD from Warsaw School of Economics (Collegium of Economic Analysis) for which he completed a thesis on decisions theory with applications to financial markets.
He has spent a year at Center of Operations Research and Econometrics in Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium. He also stayed at the University of Hamburg and University of Bochum during his research visits. His research concentrates on financial and alternative markets, agent-based modeling and behavioural economics. Marcin Czupryna professional experience includes risk controlling and software development.
Elzbieta Kubinska is employed as an associate professor at the Krakow University of Economics, has served as Head of the Department of Risk Management and Insurance since 2021, and has served as Director of the Institute of Finance since 2020. She holds a master's degree in financial mathematics, a doctorate in mathematical analysis and a habilitation in behavioral finance. She has participated in international conferences for years and has published many articles in national and international journals. Her teaching and research interests focus on behavioral economics, risk management, alternative investments. She has taught at foreign universities, including the University of Perugia in Italy, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics in Nanchang, China, Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids in the United States, Panthéon Assas University - Sorbone II in France. She is a graduate of the Art and Antiques Market postgraduate program. She has been interested in art for years, collecting contemporary art, mainly by artists originating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.
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Prof. JAROSŁAW PLICHTA
Jarosław Plichta is a graduate of Krakow University of Economics in Organisation and Management where since 1992 he has been pursuing a career as an academic. He is an Associated Professor PhD and the Chair of the Department of Commerce and Market Institutions. He coordinates the international study programme named Modern Business Management. He is a member of the Senat of the University and a member of the College of Management Science and Quality. Since 2008 he has been chairman of the Board of the Foundation of Kraków University of Economics - the NGO organisation. Jarosław Plichta is a lecturer and a researcher. He is an author of about 120 publications and a supervisor and reviewer of more than 500 bachelor's and master's students. He is also a lecturer and a supervisor of postgraduate students at Kraków Business School. Professor Jarosław Plichta has served as chairman and a member of the Board in a few companies operating in advertising, finance and internet sectors.
His research interests are related to economics and management including new institutional economy, stakeholders’ management, inter-organisational cooperation and value chain management. He is a member of many research projects considering consumer and organisational behaviour.
SEBASTIAN BRAŃKA, PhD
Sebastian Brańka holds a PhD in Management from Krakow University of Economics (Poland). He works as an assistant professor in the Department of Retailing and Market at Krakow University of Economics. Moreover, Sebastian is a CEO of „Retailing and Sales Management” postgraduate studies programme (in Krakow School of Business). This position requires following the trends in sales in order to update the teaching programme and employ and later coordinate the work of the lecturers.
At the same time, Sebastian is a vice-president of a supervisory board in one of the housing associations in Kraków. This position requires not only supervisory actions towards the management of the association but also gives an opportunity to cooperate with various stakeholders that shape the organisation and the city, where it operates. The stakeholders involve not only inhabitants but also city authorities, city services providers, development companies and architects.
MACIEJ CYCOŃ, PhD
Maciej Cycoń is a Doctor of economics in the discipline of finance and an employee of the Department of Risk Management and Insurance at the Krakow University of Economics. He is an author of a doctoral thesis entitled "Reverse mortgage as a form of old-age security", awarded 1st place in the Competition for the Financial Ombudsman Award and a special Award of the President of the Social Insurance Institution for the best doctoral dissertation.
He has repeatedly won student polls for the best lecturer, as well as receiving awards from the rector for his teaching activities. Lecturer at first and second degree programs and postgraduate programs conducted at the Krakow University of Economics. He has taught at third-age universities and conducted training courses in finance and business planning. Associated with the business consulting industry. Author of many business plans and other planning studies, completed for bank loans and EU grants. He successfully passed the state examination for insurance broker.
JUSTYNA DĄBROWSKA, PhD
Justyna Dabrowska holds a PhD in Business and Management from Manchester Business School in the UK. She works as an assistant professor in the Department of Retailing and Market at Krakow University of Economics. Prior to her current position, Justyna worked as Head of Innovation at Manchester Science Park (now called Manchester Science Partnerships) within the University of Manchester. She ran Manchester International Innovation Centre and was responsible for projects at regional and international level to foster collaboration with stakeholders with the aim to support innovation and attract inward investment to the region. She supervised organisation of national and international events in which public authorities, university leaders, non-for-profit organsations and the business sector representatives were involved. Many events were organised in collaboration with cultural organisations such as museums, art galleries or sport venues.
MATEUSZ FOLWARSKI, PhD
Deputy Director of the Institute of Finance, Assistant Professor at the Department of Banking and Global Financial System at the University of Economics in Krakow and lecturer at the Jagiellonian University. Author of numerous publications in the field of banking, new technologies and financial innovations.
He completed a research internship at the Lviv Institute of Banking (operating at the Central Bank of Ukraine) and a leading company researching the remuneration market, Sedlak & Sedlak. Participant of numerous projects concerning cooperation between science and business, incl. evaluation of the Strategy for Responsible Development (for the Ministry of Development), the model of financial triangular transactions (for the SKOK sector). Associate of the Analysis Center of the Jagiellonian Club - an expert in finance and banking. Member of the supervisory board of the Association Protection System of Bank Polskiej Spółdzielczości.
TOMASZ JEDYNAK, PhD
Currently assistant professor at the Department of Risk Management and Insurance at the Krakow University of Economics. A graduate of Finance and Accounting at KUE. He completed post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Management of the KUE “Research project management and commercialization of research results”. In 2015, he defended the doctoral dissertation titled “Efficiency and risk of socially responsible investment funds” at the Faculty of Finance of the KUE. The dissertation was granted the First Award of the President of the Management Board of Warsaw Stock Exchange and was awarded the KUE Rector's Award. Dr Jedynak was a participant of the NUS-Santander Doctorate Workshop on Advanced Financial Risk Management at the National University of Singapore. In 2016, he completed a six-month research fellowship at the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw. He was a visiting professor at the Lviv Institute of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine, National University “Lviv Polytechnic” and the University of Economics in Prague.
He actively cooperates and lectures at the Podhale State College Of Applied Sciences in Nowy Targ. Dr Tomasz Jedynak is an author and co-author of several dozen publications in the field of economics and finance, co-author of two academic textbooks and other didactic publications. He is also a contractor of several scientific and research projects covering finance issues, including in particular social security and the functioning of the pension system. Lecturer at postgraduate and doctoral studies.
PAWEŁ OLEKSY, PhD
Paweł Oleksy is an Assistant Professor at the Krakow University of Economics in the Department of Financial Markets. He obtained his PhD at the Warsaw School of Economics, is also a former DAAD scholarship holder at the University of Freiburg (Germany). His research interests center around financial markets and alternative investments, with particular emphasis on trading in emotional assets. He is a member of the European Finance Association and the American Association of Wine Economists and researcher in national and international projects. In 2022 he did research internships at the Grand Valley State University (USA) and Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). His teaching activities include courses and workshops in Alternative investments, Fixed income analysis, Investment funds and Portfolio management at both the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels. As a Visiting Professor within Erasmus+ or CEEPUS Programs he also lectured at foreign universities in Ho Chi Minh, Rijeka, Athens, San Sebastian, Bilbao, Sevilla, Varna and Vilnius. He has extensive professional experience gained as a CEO’ advisor and vice-chairman of supervisory board in private sector entities, or as a court expert in the field of finance. His administrative duties at the university include coordinating the Financial Markets study program, co-organized with the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, and serving as director of postgraduate studies in "Financial Risk Management".
MICHAŁ WIŚNIEWSKI, PhD
Michał Wiśniewski is concerned with the history of architecture, graduate of the Jagiellonian University and Krakow University of Technology, defended his doctoral thesis on the history of architecture in interwar Krakow in 2010, assistant professor in the Department of Economic and Social History of the KUE, head of the Education Centre - Heritage Academy at the International Cultural Centre in Krakow (ICC). Since 2011, supervises the Heritage Academy postgraduate program implemented by the ICC and MSAP CUE, prepares and implements international educational programs of the ICC, including the V Academy of Heritage, coordinates the scholarship program of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Thesaurus Poloniae, organized by the ICC. He teaches classes on the history of cities, the history of urban planning, architecture, and cultural heritage management.
BARTŁOMIEJ BALAWEJDER
Currently a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Banking and Global Financial System at the Institute of Finance of the Krakow University of Economics (KUE). Master's degree in Banking and Risk Management with a specialization in Advanced Banking at the Institute of Finance at the Krakow University of Economics. Graduate of the Bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting with a specialization in Banking and Capital Markets at the Faculty of Management, Rzeszów University of Technology.
In the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 academic years, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Banking Academic Circle and a student representative on the Curriculum and Teaching Team for the Banking and Risk Management major. In the 2020/2021 academic year, he won first place in the FinSim Academic League competition organized by the Warsaw Banking Institute under the auspices of the National Bank of Poland, the Bank Guarantee Fund and Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego.
In 2022, he held a teaching internship at Grand Valley State University (Seidman College Of Business, Grand Rapids, MI, USA).
ANNA BUDZAŁEK
ART HISTORIAN, CURATOR OF MODERN ART, MUSEOLOGIST
A graduate of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and curatorial studies at the Jagiellonian University
Curator in the Department of Contemporary Art.
On a daily basis, she deals with Polish art after 1945, with particular emphasis on the work of women in Polish artistic life and the activities of the First and Second Krakow Groups. Author of many exhibitions dedicated to Polish post-war art.
I conducted, among others, a series of meetings devoted to the work of female artists, whose works can be seen at the Gallery of the twentieth and twentieth centuries of the National Museum in Krakow, as well as lectures from the series "History of dance in fine arts", in which she presented how this unusual motif was used by artists from antiquity to modern times also in Polish art.I also gave lectures from the series "Meetings with the Gallery of Polish Art of the Twentieth Century with the curator of the NMK Anna Budzałek" devoted to the life and work of selected representatives of the I and II Krakow Group. These selected cycles document interests in the field of completed work in the Department of Contemporary Art.
RADOSŁAW CIUKAJ
Radosław Ciukaj is Assistant Professor in Department of Banking and Global Financial System at the Krakow University of Economics, Poland. Before joining the KUE, he worked for Brown Brothers Harriman, company that provides expertise in Private Banking, Investment Fund Management and Investor Services. His research interests centre around issues related to risk management in banking and monetary policy. Currently he works on ways to restructure the portfolio of low-quality loans in European Union countries in the post-crisis period.
JOANNA HAKLUK
ADVOCATE
PARTNER AT LAW OFFICE HAKLUK AND ASOCIATES
Joanna Hakluk is advocate and the partner in the law office HAKLUK AND ASOCIATES (previously GACH MIZIŃSKA), with its registered seat in Cracow and the president of management board of the LABORATORY OF ART FOUNDATION. She specializes in commercial law and companies law, in particularly in capital investment in companies, and also in the securities law and in bonds issuing.
Her over 20 years of professional experience, includes a full range of legal services for commercial entities, which were related to negotiating and drawing up of commercial contracts and investments agreement, merger and acquisition, legal transformation, shares purchasing transaction and proceeding a due diligence processes. Since over 5 years she is acing as art lawyer and manager for artists.
MARGARYTA VLADIMIROVA
ARTIST, CURATOR, CULTURAL MANAGER, MUSICIAN
Margarita Vladimirova’s professional interests focus on international cultural studies, cultural management, contemporary art, curating, exhibition design and art education. She studied at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (2007-2013), the Linnaeus University in Sweden (2012-2013), as well as the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (2016-2019). Before visual arts and cultural management became the centre of her attention, Margarita dedicated 15 years of her life to music. Thanks to that she approaches any project holistically and sensitively as if it were a musical composition.
From 2014 she worked for the International Cultural Centre in Krakow at the Institute of European Heritage. In 2018, she became a manager and a curator of the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. As a curator and coordinator Margarita organised over 40 problematic, individual or group exhibitions (e.g. (UN)WELCOME, Karol Palczak. Pothers; Walk with me, Andrzej Pągowski. Film poster; Wajda, Wróblewski. Their Academy; Bernard Buffet. La Passion du Christ; Forms and Numbers IV; Mokuhanga; Lesyeux. Italian conceptual design).
In 2021 Vladimirova curated an interdisciplinary art exhibition OPEN ART organized on the initiative of Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts and Kraków University of Economics. This exhibition played a key role in Open Eyes Art Festival 2021 and involved 25 student projects and almost 150 participants. In 2018 as a co-curator she created an exhibition Young Academy to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. Works of over 80 contemporary artists were presented in this show and inventive exhibition design were implemented to cover an area of over 600 m2.
Margarita’s artistic practices circle around analogue photography, video art, installations and objects, which she plunge into visual and performative narratives. Due to her strong belief in power of education through art in 2021 she established an art education program at the ASP Gallery called The Culturist (Kulturystyka ASP, https://galeria.asp.krakow.pl/Kulturystyka-ASP). Margarita creates and conducts art workshops with different social groups, including refugees, people with disabilities and convicted persons.
Project administration staff
SYLWIA RUTKOWSKA
COORDINATOR OF SPINAKER PROJECT
MA in French language and literature, alumni of Academy of Diplomacy in Katowice. Deputy head of International Programmes Office, double diploma and international projects coordinator, former teacher of French language.
She works 20 years in Krakow University of Economics, she implemented double degrees programmes, managed projects as TEMPUS, Leonardo da Vinci, Transatlantic project, participated in many conferences for international educators and communication officers. Sylwia has experience in organizing international weeks and summer schools. She has strong interest in networking with international community and university environment.
JOANNA JACKOWSKA
Extensive experience in coordinating international university networks, handling incoming to and outgoing students, Polish language teacher for foreigners, person who has great contact with people. Privately a mother of three children, sports and travel enthusiast.
JUSTYNA MENTEL
In the office has been dealing with exchange students for many years and handling databases. Extremely conscientious, good organizer, talent for catching important details. Her personal passions are reading and film.
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ŁUKASZ SMUG
Job responsibilities including serving students studying in English and arranging schedules for studies conducted in English. Privately passionate about theater, contemporary art, literature.
MAŁGORZATA TROJANOWSKA
Many years of experience in international promotion, handling international exchanges, organizing short educational programmes, summer schools and conceptual work. Private interests include broad cultural fields.
OLEH VDOVIAK
Oleh is a member of the Welcome Centre UEK team. His professional duties include assisting foreign students, especially newcomers, and prospective applicants. Formerly, he worked as a digital marketing and government communication specialist in Ukraine.
The Project is financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under the SPINAKER Programme.%20PL.png)