Keynote Speakers

Prof. dr hab. Marek Góra

WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
   Head of the Department of Economics 1 at the Warsaw School of Economics, with which he has been associated since 1984. He teaches macro-economics, pension economics, labor economics, population economics, health economics, and economic and social policy; formerly econometrics and forecasting. During his profes-sional career, he conducted research at the London School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Ifo Institute for Economic Research (Munich).
   Between the years 1990 and 1997 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Labor Economists. In 1992-1993 he worked at the Directorate for Education Labor and Social Affairs (OECD). He is the author of numerous Polish and foreign publications, mainly in the field of labor and pension economics. He is the co-author of the project of the Polish pension system introduced in Poland in 1999. At various times he has advised governments and other institutions in Poland and abroad on pensions. In 2014, together with a group of associates, he founded the Polish Pension Group (PPG) dealing with broadly understood research and consulting in the field of pension issues.

Prof. dr hab. Maciej Żukowski

POZNAŃ UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
     Economist, professor in the Department of Labour and Social Policy at the Poznań University of Economics and Business in Poland.
     Research areas: public economics, social security, pensions, labour market, international migration, education, European integration.
     Vice-rector for research and international relations 2008-2016, 2016-2024 rector of the Poznań University of Economics and Business.
     Research abroad included, inter alia, London School of Economics and Political Science, Nottingham Trent University, Vienna University of Economics and Business.      Scholar of the  and  Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation at the Centre for Social Policy Research at the University of Bremen, Germany.
     Member of the Committee on Labour and Social Policy Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Ph.D Francesco Briganti

SECRETARY GENERAL,
CBBA-EUROPE
         Francesco Briganti is the Secretary General of the Cross Border Benefits Alliance – Europe (CBBA-Europe), an EU advocacy association that promotes the creation of cross border and pan-European social benefits solutions (including occupational/workplace and personal pensions). Francesco is also the CEO of the Employee Benefits and Welfare Institute (EBWI), a Belgian public affairs company, and a member of the Stakeholders Group on Occupational Pensions (OPSG) of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA). Additionally, Francesco set up and currently chairs both the Italian and the Belgian/EU branch of the International Employee Benefits Association (IEBA).
      Between June 2016 and 2018, Francesco was the Coordinator of the World Pension Alliance (WPA), a platform of the main worldwide private pensions advocacy organizations.
        Prior to this, Francesco was the Director of the European Association of Paritarian Institutions of Social Protection (AEIP) - an EU advocacy organization representing 1,200 employee benefits providers.
            Francesco has a law degree from the University of Bologna (Italy); a Master’s degree in International Political Economy at the University of Kent (UK); and a Ph.D in EU social and labor law at the University Foundation Marco Biagi in Modena (Italy) and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) as co-tutor.
            His academic research focused on the creation of a pan-European Occupational (Workplace) Pension.
            As an expert, he has been for several years a member of the European Commission’s Pension Forum and he has been speaking at more than 300 public events all over the world.