Speakers

born: 18.08.1947 in Wrocław; education: Higher School of Economics in Wrocław (WSE Wrocław) – Master of Arts in 1969; academic titles and degrees: PhD – Oskar Lange Academy of Economics in Wrocław (AE Wrocław) in 1975, PhD hab. – Academy of Economics in Poznań (AE Poznań) in 1981, Professor of Economic Sciences in 1989, Professor of AE/UE in Katowice in 1996; academic discipline: management sciences (marketing); employed by AE/UE: from 1979; positions held: Prorector – AE Katowice from 1984 to 1987, Director of Market and Consumption Institute (Division of Trade, Transport, and Services) from 1987 to 1991, Manager of the of Chair of Market Policy and Marketing Management (Marketing Division) from 1991, Dean of Marketing Division from 2002 to 2008, Rector – University of Economics in Katowice (UE Katowice) from 2012; other employment: AE Wrocław – Assistant from 1970 to 1979, Associate Professor at the Internal Market and Consumption Institute in Warsaw (IRWiK Warszawa) from 1987 to 1991; Main Mining Institute in Katowice (GIG Katowice) – Professor, GIG Katowice – manager of the Faculty of Mining and Regional Economics; publications: overall number – 305; authored non-serial publications – 4; co-authorship and factual proofreading of non-serial publications – 20; most important publications: Market Informational Process in Trade Management (Rynkowy proces informacyjny w zarządzaniu handlem), AE Wrocław, 1976; The Market in the Process of Managing the Economy (Rynek w procesie zarządzania gospodarką), Warsaw, PWN, 1979 [co-author]; Market Analysis (Analiza rynku), Warsaw, PWE, 1981 [co-author]; Market Policy (Polityka rynkowa), Warsaw, PWE, 1991; The Behaviour of Market Entities (Zachowania podmiotów rynkowych), Collective work edited by J. Kramer. Warsaw, PWE, 1999 [co-author]; Marketing as an Applied Discipline of the Economic Sciences. An Attempt at Identification. Journal of Economics and Management, 2005, Vol. 2; Marketing in the Contemporary Market Economy and Consumer Society (Marketing we współczesnej gospodarce rynkowej i społeczeństwie konsumpcyjnym), VIII Congress of Polish Economists (VIII Kongres Ekonomistów Polskich), Vol. 5. Warsaw, PTE, 2009; Marketing of System Products (Marketing produktów systemowych), Factual proofreading: L. Żabiński, Warsaw, PWE, 2012 [co-author.]; number of PhDs promoted: 15; number of MAs promoted: 200; distinctions: Silver Award of the Polish Students’ Association (1969), Gold Cross of Merit (1987), Medal of the Commission of National Education (1990), Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1997), Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2004), Golden Badge of Honour of the Polish Economic Society, with Laurel (2004); awards and prizes: 2nd class Scientific Award of Oskar Lange Polish Economic Society (1979), 2nd and 3rd class Award of the Minister of Education, Higher Education, and Technology (1981), Award from the Minister of National Education (1996, 1997, 1998), Letter from the President of the Main Council of Higher Education; membership in: Polish Economic Society (PTE) since 1970, Katowice branch of PTE – President from 1993 to 2004, International Association for Research Economic Psychology – member from 1987 to 1994, Committee for Organisational Sciences and Management of the Polish Academy of Sciences – member from 1999 to 2002, PAN Mining Sciences Committee (Mining Economics Section) – member from 1993 to 1999, PAN Economic Sciences Committee – member since 2012; other: Main Council of Higher Education – member, Economics Committee of the Main Council of Higher Education – president from 1996 to 1999, Socio-Economic Strategy Council under the Prime Minister of Poland – member from 2002 to 2005, Supervisory Board of Polish Steel Foundries (Polskie Huty Stali S.A.) – member from 2002 to 2004, National Accreditation Committee – member from 2003 to 2006, Steering Committee of the Management Board of the Polish Economics Society – member from 2002 to 2006, Scientific Council of the Polish Economics Society – member since 2006, Convention of Rectors of Polish Schools – member since 2012, Regional Conference of the Rectors of Silesian Universities – member and secretary since 2012; interests: classical music, Polish and European literature, political and economic history, the history and social teachings of the Catholic Church and Christianity. (bw)