Date of appointment: 18 November 2021

Professor at the Katowice Business University, Ph.D. in economics, KBU Rector’s Representative for the Correlation of Science with Business Practice, specialist, scientist and practitioner in accounting and corporate finance, founder of the University’s Business Council.

Academic lecturer at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies in the following subjects (among others): financial accounting, management accounting, financial analysis, financial reporting, consolidated reporting, controlling, legal forms of running a business. Mr. Lis has extensive experience in educating scientists and management specialists, has tutored several thousand university graduates and conducted several thousand training courses for public and private entities. He has participated in research and development projects for more than a dozen companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

His activities in other academic centers have included domestic and foreign fellowships with addresses, lectures or training courses at the Brno University of Technology, MBA studies at the Silesian University of Technology, the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, the Warsaw Management University, the Kozminski University in Warsaw, and participation in hundreds of conferences and congresses.

Mr. Tomasz Lis has been a long-term member of corporate authorities and consulting teams working for companies operating in the power sector, water and sewage management and municipal services. He has sat on Supervisory Boards and advisory teams of private and public companies, most recently in ENEA S.A. and Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa S.A., where he was a member of the Transport Monitoring Team, a member of the Audit Team and a member of the Strategy Team. As part of his sole proprietorship, he has carried out assignments and performed orders for accounting, consulting and organizational deliverables for hundreds of businesses, including: PGE, ENERGA, ORANGE, BEŁCHATÓW, Elektrownia Połaniec, Białystok PGE Dystrybucja, Tauron, Elektrociepłownia Kraków, PKP, as well as Polish courts, the State Labor Inspection Service, the Energy Regulatory Office, the Ministry of Finance, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, the National Tax Administration. He has participated in projects executed with some of the largest consulting companies, including projects for international corporate groups. He has served as a regular advisor to network companies for which he has implemented reporting systems and accounting policies. He has been awarded the Medal of the Commission of National Education, the Medal for Long Service and other distinctions.