She graduated from the Management Faculty of the University of Gdańsk. She completed a Manage-ment post-graduate course at the Warsaw School of Economics and a Controlling in Corporate Man-agement postgraduate course at the University of Gdańsk. She has long-standing experience with state-owned companies, including at Energa SA as the President of the Management Board. During the con-solidation of the Energa Group and the Ostrołęka Power Plant Complex, she was in charge of the DSO separation process, establishment of an electricity trading company and restructuring of the Energa Group subsidiaries. In 2006-2007, she also served on supervisory boards of such companies as: To-warowa Giełda Energii SA in Warsaw, Zespół Elektrowni Ostrołęka SA and Cergia Energetyka Toruńska SA From 1992 to 1998, as the Vice-Mayor of Suwałki, she supervised the areas of finance, infrastruc-tural investments, land surveying, spatial management and public utility companies.

In 1998-2006, she was the President and Vice-President of the Special Economic Zone in Suwałki, where her responsibilities included, without limitation, oversight of infrastructure construction and devel-opment within the Special Economic Zone and monitoring the compliance of businesses with their per-mits. In 2008-2013, she ran her own business in the field of investment and environmental impact as-sessment report consulting. Since 2014, she has been the Director of the Technology Transfer Centre at the Prof. Edward F. Szczepanik State School of Higher Professional Education in Suwałki, where she is in charge of EU-funded projects focusing on research and development activities for the benefit of undertakings and technology transfers from academic centres to the economy.

He graduated from the Economic Academy in Katowice (today the University of Economics). He spe-cialises in finance and accounting. He started his career in 1989 as an accountant, finance specialist and chief accountant in privately held limited liability companies. Subsequently, from 1992 to 1998, he provided accounting, tax and legal and economic advisory services as a sole proprietor. He delivered training in the field of taxes, accounting and mandatory prevention of introducing assets from illegal or undisclosed sources into the financial market. He also worked as a Compliance Inspector (lustrator) for the National Cooperative Savings and Loans Union (Krajowa Spółdzielcza Kasa Oszczędnościowo-Kredytowa). In 1998-2002, he worked as the Finance Department Director at the Silesian Voivodship Office. He was the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Upper Silesia Regional Development Agency and a Member of the Council of the Upper Silesia Restructuring Fund.

A Member of the Sejm of the 5th Term and, during that period, a Member of the Parliamentary Public Finance Committee. From January to November 2007, he was the Secretary of State at the Prime Minister’s Office and the Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers. In 2007-2011, he was the Vice-President of the Supreme Audit Office. He was engaged in an expert capacity in a twinning project concerning the rein-forcement of the audit capacity of the audit authorities in Georgia and Albania.

Graduate of the University of Gdańsk’s Faculty of Law and Administration (2001). In 2004, he completed a public prosecutor trainee programme at the Regional Public Prosecution Office in Gdańsk and passed the public prosecutor examination. He was admitted to the bar in November 2005. In July 2006 he became a Partner at Kancelaria Radców Prawnych i Adwokatów Głuchowski Siemiątkowski Zwara i Partnerzy (a law firm). In November 2010, he was promoted to a Senior Partner, taking an executive position. In his law practice, he specialised mostly in corporate law, business services, criminal law, criminal tax law, civil law, administrative law and matters relating to the oil and power sector. Additionally, he provided services to other businesses, including consulting in the broad area of corporate govern-ance.

In 2003-2007, he sat on the Supervisory Board of Agencja Rozwoju Pomorza SA (the Pomeranian Development Agency) in Gdańsk. He was one of the leading authors of a proposal for the Lustration Act and amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance, drafted in 2006. He also partici-pated in drafting of a proposal for the Act on Personal Bankruptcy, an amendment of the Act on the General Counsel to the Republic of Poland, an amendment of the Press Law, an amendment of the Act on Weapons and Ammunition, an amendment of the Criminal Code, and he drafted proposals for regu-lations of the Minister of Regional Development in the field of public aid. In 1996, he completed the Fourth Annual Summer School for Young Social and Political Leaders of the Polish Robert Schuman Foundation and in 1997, the English language school at the University of California Los Angeles.