Maciej Kawecki, PhD - Dean of the Warsaw School of Banking and Of Counsel at the Maruta Wachta Law Firm
Graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Cracow Jagiellonian University, where, in 2016, he defended his doctoral thesis on the EU reform of Personal Data Protection. He also graduated with distinction from the European Academy of Diplomacy and studied at the University of Stockholm and the University of J.W. Goethe in Frankfurt am Main.
From May 2017 till July 2019, Maciej served as Deputy Director and then Director of the Data Management Department at the Ministry of Digital Affairs, where he was responsible for coordinating the personal data protection reform, and shared responsibility for adapting Polish legislation to the requirements of the European Union General Data protection Regulation.
In the 2018-2019 academic year Maciej was Associate Professor at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2015-2016 he was an expert at the Office of the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection. In 2014-2015 he was CEO at K&K Business and Legal Consulting, focusing on the protection and management of intellectual property of IT solutions in the aspect of personal data. In 2011-2014 he was a Legal Associate at Barta Litwiński Law Firm.
Maciej is a laureate of a special prize in the “Rising Star Lawyers - Leaders of Tomorrow” competition organized by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna and Wolters Kluwer Publishing House for his contribution to the reform of personal data protection in Poland. In 2018, he ranked #23 on the list of 50 most influential lawyers in Poland. In 2019 he went up to #15 for being recognized as "the face of GDPR in Poland". In 2018, he received the Grand Prix Special Award at the Forum of Electronic Media for “Personality of the Year 2018” for his contribution to the implementation of GDPR in Poland. In 2019, he received the "Digital Shapers" award in the category of “Education”, i.e. the Digital Oscar awarded by the Digital Poland Foundation under the auspices of Forbes. Maciej is the author of several dozen publications in the field of personal data security and a co-author of the 2017 commentary on GDPR.