Director of GIG-PIB
Jarosław Zagórowski graduated from two faculties at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice: mechanics, technology of machines and production processes at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Technology, and business management and industrial marketing at the Faculty of Organization and Management. In 2004, he completed doctoral studies at the Faculty of Mining at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow.
From 2007 to 2015, he was president of Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa S.A., then president of WASKO S.A. and Huta Bankowa Sp. z o.o. and advisor to the board of directors of the companies: Carboautomatics and KPMG Advisory.
He has extensive experience working in government administration. He began his career at the Ministry of Economic Cooperation with Foreign Countries, then worked for a number of years at the Ministry of Economy. Among other things, he was an advisor to the undersecretary of state on matters related to mining, energy, gas, liquid fuels and metallurgy; he was also responsible for the implementation of industrial policy in the metallurgy, coking, energy and non-energy minerals mining and national energy security industries. From 2002 to 2003, as Deputy Director of the Department of Industry Restructuring, he was responsible for the coal and non-energy minerals mining sector. From 2003 he was Minister Counselor in the Department of Energy Security at the Ministry of Economy, Labor and Social Policy.
Co-founder and long-time member of the Board of Directors of Central Europe Energy Partners (CEEP), an organization representing Polish and Central European companies in Brussels from the energy sector and energy-intensive industries. Member of the Coal Industry Advisory Board (CIAB), the Board of the Prof. Zbigniew Religa Foundation for Cardiac Surgery Development and the Polish Economic Society in Katowice. Advisor to the President of the Board of Employers of Poland, member of several supervisory boards of large industrial companies. In 2010 he was awarded, among others, the title “For the one who changes Polish industry”, and in 2012 with the Manager Award and many state awards.
