Representative of the Minister responsible for higher education and science
Vice-Rector for Research, Director of the Institute of Statistics and Demography at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Chair of the Government Population Council, and member of the Committee on Demographic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is also a member of the SHARE-ERIC Management Board and the leader of the Polish research group “Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe”. The SHARE study in Poland has been conducted, among others, within a systemic project financed from the European Social Fund. She has led or currently leads SGH research teams in projects funded by European Commission grants (FP7, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe):
- EUSOCIALIT: The Future of European Social Citizenship
- Non-intended health, economic and social effects of the COVID-19 epidemic control decisions: Lessons from SHARE (SHARE-COVID19)
- FutuRes: Towards a Resilient Future of Europe
- ERIC Forum 2: Second implementation project for the ERIC Forum
- Social Aspects of the Green Transition (SoGreen)
She leads the Polish National Transfer Accounts research team, within which she has led SGH teams in two research projects:
- AGENTA: Ageing Europe – Using National Transfer Accounts to Explain and Project Trends in Public Finances, funded under the 7th Framework Programme in 2014–2017
- National Transfer Accounts and National Time Transfer Accounts for Poland” (POLNTA), funded under the Harmonia programme of the National Science Centre
In the years 2009–2017, she was affiliated with the Educational Research Institute, where she headed the Education and Labour Market Team and the National Qualifications Framework Team. These teams co-implemented projects financed under the Human Capital Operational Programme. Within these activities, she coordinated research projects including:
- the household panel study “Determinants of Educational Decisions”
- analysis of results for Poland in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)
- monitoring the career paths of higher education graduates
- development of the conceptual and institutional framework for the National Qualifications Framework and the national qualifications register
- development of the national qualifications system – implementation of the Integrated Qualifications Register at the organisational and institutional level
At the Educational Research Institute, she also led two twinning projects implemented for the Government of North Macedonia, supporting the development of the qualifications system and vocational education in that country. These projects required coordination of an international team of experts.
In the years 1997–2009, she worked in public administration. During that period, she coordinated programme and analytical work at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy as Director of the Department of Economic Analyses and Forecasts. In 2006–2008, she served as Vice-Chair of the Social Protection Committee. In 2004–2008, she was a member of the Bureau of the OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee and chaired the Committee’s Working Group on Social Affairs. During her work in public administration, she served twice as Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy: from December 2004 to November 2005 and from January 2008 to October 2009. In 2003–2005, she was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS), and in 2007–2009 she was a member of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, representing the Minister of Labour and Social Policy. In 2006, she was appointed a civil servant. In 2009, she received the Andrzej Bączkowski Award for her commitment to public service.
She is Chair of the Supervisory Board of Bank Pocztowy and a member of the Supervisory Board of PTE Nationale Nederlanden.