The WSE company’s shareholders chose Bardziłowski as the exchange’s new CEO in early February, but he still needed the green light from the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) to take over the reins.
On Friday, the Warsaw bourse announced that the KNF “at its meeting on March 27, 2024 unanimously approved the appointment of Tomasz Bardziłowski as President of the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange."
An economist and financial expert, Bardziłowski has been associated with the Polish capital market since 1997.
He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in finance and banking from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) and earned a master’s degree in international finance from the University of Amsterdam.
He then obtained a doctoral degree from Kozminski University in Warsaw and completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. He also studied at Staffordshire University Business School in Britain and at Wirtschaftsuniversität in Vienna.
Bardziłowski has a CV that includes stints as the managing director of several financial companies specializing in investment banking and brokerage services.
Established in 1991, the Warsaw Stock Exchange is the largest bourse in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Source: IAR, PAP, gpw.pl