dr hab. Jacek Jastrzębski

Chair of the KNF Board since 23 November 2018.

Jacek Jastrzębski has a degree in law, obtained from the Faculty of Law and Administration of University of Warsaw, as well as a degree in economics, being a graduate of SGH Warsaw School of Economics. He has also completed advocate traineeship in Warsaw, and a prestigious ‘Professional LL.M.’ legal programme at University of California, Berkeley (United States). 

Jacek Jastrzębski combined his work in the financial market with his academic and research activities. For more than ten years he served as Deputy Director of the Legal Department at Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski. He has been employed as Professor at the Department of Civil Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration at University of Warsaw, and he is also Deputy Head of that Department. 

In his academic and research activities, he focuses on civil law, commercial law, and financial market law. He is an author/co-author of more than 100 academic publications. His doctoral and habilitation dissertations have received awards from Państwo i Prawo monthly. He participated, as a speaker and host, in a series of national and international conferences, including events regarding the financial market.

On 24 November 2023, the President of the Council of Ministers Mateusz Morawiecki appointed dr hab. Jacek Jastrzębski, prof. UW, for the position of the Chair of the KNF Board for the next term of office.