Speakers

Katarzyna Kurkowska-Szczechowicz has been involved in the financial market for nearly 30 years. In 2012, she joined the PKO Bank Polski Group, initially as Director of the Risk Centre, and subsequently as Director of the Internal Audit Department at PKO Bank Polski. She has been involved in numerous projects, including, amongst others, the project to establish PKO Bank Hipoteczny  and a project aimed at developing an audit model based on a methodology of continuous risk assessment and control mechanisms, utilising statistical methods and artificial intelligence. She was responsible for implementing new processes, including solutions utilising statistical methods and robotics.

She has many years’ managerial experience. She has held numerous senior management positions at financial market institutions, including BRE (now mBank), Citi, BPH and DNB Nord. As a Manager at EY, she carried out projects for organisations in the financial sector. She has been a long-standing member of Risk Committees, Asset and Liability Management Committees and Strategic Initiatives Committees. She was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Credit Information Bureau. She has undertaken a number of training courses both in Poland and abroad. She currently serves as Chair of the Covered Bonds Committee at the Polish Bankers’ Association, coordinating activities aimed at developing the covered bonds market. During conferences both in Poland and abroad, she has participated as an expert in numerous panels and workshops devoted to issues relating to the covered bond market. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, specialising in Finance and Banking, and a Master’s degree in Law from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. She is a graduate of the Executive MBA Programme at Aalto University.