Agnieszka Durlik

Director General of The Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce long-time practitioner in the field of business support. Jagiellonian University Master of law, completed postgraduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics in Human Resource Management. She developed her first professional experience as the right hand of the director of one of the largest hospitals in Warsaw, where she learned the ins and outs of the challenges of managing an organisation in a way that required reconciling opposing interest groups. For many years, she has represented the entrepreneurs’ self-government as an expert in business and legal topics concerning the establishment and operation of a business, labour law and social security. She has worked her way up through the various levels of a large organisation such as the Polish Chamber of Commerce – from expert, through project-manager, Press Officer, Director of the President’s Office, to Director General of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce. She actively participates in the law-making processes in Poland – in the parliament, ministries, public administration bodies. She has successfully prepared and implemented projects financed by EU funds. She advises entrepreneurs and is a guest of various media in advocating the interests of entrepreneurs. She is a co-author of a number of publications on, inter alia, business advocacy, business conduct and corruption prevention.