Speakers
Mirosław Proppé
President of the Management Board, WWF Polska Foundation
Since August 1, 2018, Mirosław Proppé has served as the head of the WWF Poland Foundation. He is responsible for overseeing the entire operation of the largest environmental foundation in Poland, which employs approximately 100 full-time staff members and runs professional volunteer programs engaging around 400 volunteers. He led the successful development and professionalization of the Foundation, digitizing internal processes, professionalizing the management of environmental projects, and introducing a feedback culture.
He has frequently spoken at economic congresses and business conferences, highlighting the necessity and profitability of energy transformation and the importance of considering the business impact on natural resources. He led to public hearings of the KPO, creating a common front of NGOs with local governments and business associations. He led to the cooperation of around 100 organizations, administrative, scientific and business institutions, which jointly agreed on a strategy for the decarbonization of the Polish economy in the areas of energy, agriculture and forestry, buildings and transport.
Mirosław is a guest lecturer in postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw and Lazarski University. He serves as a mentor in programs organized by BCG and WWF International and has previously been a juror in the Start-up and Science Grant Program by ING Bank Poland and a mentor in the 25Under25 McKinsey Poland program.
He chaired the steering committee of the WWF Baltic Sea Program, served as the chairman of the supervisory board of PPUC Sp. z o.o., and is currently a member of the supervisory board of Euvic Solutions Sp. z o.o. From 2020 to 2023, he was the vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of the WWF European Policy Office in Brussels. Before taking up the position of head of WWF Polska, since 1994 he was associated with KPMG, one of the largest auditing and advisory firms in Poland and in the world. From 2008, he served as a partner and head of the advisory team for public administration and infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe. Throughout his extensive managerial career, he has led projects in the fields of energy, flood risk management, urban revitalization, social policy, and digital transformation.
He holds a degree in economics from the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw (1997) and a postgraduate Executive Master of Public Administration from the Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington (2015).
