Ambassador Cosmin Boiangiu is the Executive Director of the European Labour Authority. He is a career diplomat who joined the Romanian Foreign Affairs ministry in 1996, with expertise in EU affairs and multilateral diplomacy, security and strategic policies, development, NATO and United Nations. Between April 2016 – December 2020, ambassador Boiangiu served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Romania to the European Union and Representative to the Committee of Permanent Representatives I (COREPER I ). In 2012 – 2016 Cosmin Boiangiu was Ambassador of Romania to the Republic of Slovenia. From 2008 to 2012, Cosmin Boiangiu served as Director of United Nations, Specialized Institutions and Francophone Affairs within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a Knight of the National Order of Faithful Service (2019) for distinguished contribution to the success of Romania’s Presidency of the EU Council. He was also awarded by the President of Romania with the medal “Diplomatic Merit”, 1 s t class (2007) and Diploma of for contribution to Romania’s accession to NATO ( 2002). Cosmin Boiangiu is university licenced in International Economic Relations (Bucharest University of Economic Sciences , 1996), has a Master in Public Management (Bucharest University of Economic Sciences, 2006) and a PhD in Economics of climate change (Bucharest University of Economic Sciences, 2019).

Professor, PhD, president of Social Insurance Institution (ZUS), Head of Centre for Social Security Studies at Warsaw University, professor at the Institute of Labour and Social Studies, Chair of Committee for Labour and Social Policy of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Social Affairs Council (within the National Development Council) to the President of the Republic of Poland, member of the Bureau of the International Social Security Association, the global forum for social security administrations from ca. 160 countries, Chair of the ISSA European Network and Chair of the Technical Commission on Old-Age, Invalidity and Survivors’ Insurance of that institution, expert in research programs of universities and institutes from EU Member States (University of Antwerp, Ghent University, Max Planck Institute) in connection to the implementation of EU programs (Consensus, Special, LAW, trESS, FreSsco, MoveS), head and expert in Polish and international projects, author of many publications in the field of social policy, social security, social insurance, and European law.

Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe joined Gorrissen Federspiel as partner of the firm after the end of his time as Danish Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union. He has had great experience working as a lawyer in commercial law. He has worked as both Head of Department in the office of Property and Obligations Law in the Ministry of Justice, acting judge at the High Court of Eastern Denmark and finally as Consumer Ombudsman. Furthermore, Henrik has acted as lecturer at the University of Aarhus as well as the University of Copenhagen. Henrik has moreover been a guest lecturer at the University of Aalborg. He has published many articles and given a large number of lectures at different universities and at international conferences, hereunder as keynote speaker, on topics mainly within the area of EU law, property law, law of obligations and marketing law. Henrik is fluent in English, French and German.

Deputy Marshal of the Małopolska Region and the councilor to the Małopolska Region Parliament from the Tarnów district. Józef Gawron is a graduate of the Cracow University of Technology, Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with the specialization in Machine Technology. He also completed post-graduate studies in IT, post-graduate studies in economics, specializing in Entrepreneurship and post-graduate studies in Healthcare Manager. Between 2015 and 2018 he held the position of the Vice-Voivode of the Małopolska Region. For his activities for the local community, he was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit by the President of Poland.

Since 2004 Herwig Verschueren is professor of International and European Labour and Social Security law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He graduated in law at the University of Leuven (Belgium; 1980). Subsequently, he worked as a researcher at the Universities of Antwerp and Leuven. He received his PhD degree in 1990 on the subject of “International labour migration”. From 1992 to 2004, he worked as a civil servant at the European Commission (Brussels) in the field of free movement of workers and the co-ordination of social security schemes. His current teaching and research concentrates on European social law and more specifically on the legal position of migrating EU citizens with regard to labour and social security rights. He is the author and co-author of books, articles and reports on these issues. He has published in journals such as the Common Market Law Review, the European Journal of Social Security, the European Labour Law Journal, the European Journal of Migration and Law, and the International Journal for Labour Law and Industrial Relations. He frequently gives lectures at international seminars and conferences. He also acts as a consultant for Belgian and European public authorities on legal issues related to the cross-border application of labour and social security law and social rights of migrant persons. He is an expert member of the European academic network “MoveS” (European social security coordination). For more information see: www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/herwig-verschueren/

Kamila Król worked at the Ministry of Development and Technology, Department of Digital Economy – Division of Digital Policy and Information since 2020. In the department, she was responsible for managing projects and project products, primarily in coordinating the operation of the Center for Entrepreneurial Assistance (CPP), as well as managing projects in the areas relating to education and communication and the development of e-payment e-service. She worked in the Department of Supervised and Subordinate Units and the Department of Dialogue and Social Partnership – in the Crafts Division. She was in charge of organizing and managing the support system for the implementation of projects on the development of crafts and regional services, as well as projects on the development of vocational education. She was responsible for handling the legislative process, monitoring the state of legislation and case law, as well as standards, recommendations, guidelines and opinions on crafts and the vocational education system. Her duties also included the implementation of tasks on projects of the Digital Poland 2014-2020 Operational Program co-financed by the European Union. As of 2018, she worked in the Office of the Prime Minister, in the Office of the Prime Minister. She was responsible for handling applications for the allocation of funds from the general reserve of the state budget (including analyzing and giving an opinion on applications). She participated in the meetings of the permanent Team for the consideration of bids for the implementation of public tasks.

Prof Dr Grega Strban is Full Professor of Social Security Law at the Faculty of Law University of Ljubljana. He has completed postgraduate specialization course of the European Union (EU) law at the University of Cambridge (with distinction), master course on European social security at the University of Leuven (magna cum laude), and defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Ljubljana. He conducted research at Max-Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich and at present he is an external expert of the Institute. He is President of the Slovenian Association of Labour Law and Social Security, Vice-President of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law (ISLSSL, Geneva) and Vice-President of the European Institute of Social Security (EISS, Leuven). Prof. Strban is active in several national and international projects, e.g., as head of the research program group at the Faculty of Law University of Ljubljana and coordinator the EU project MoveS. He has authored numerous publications and is member of editorial boards of several journals. He has passed the State exam for lawyer, was awarded as Best Young Lawyer in Slovenia (2001) and received the Roger Dillemans Award for Excellence in Social Security, KU Leuven (2004).

Dolores Carrascosa Bermejo is a senior lecturer in law, researcher and consultant with 23 years of experience. PhD. in Law (Carlos III University. January 2003), her thesis analysed the rules of conflict of law applicable to Social Security and old-age pensions under the EU Coordination Regulations. Lecturer at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE since 2005) and at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM since 2017), she also works at Lefebvre Spain (since 2004), writing and editing legal literature and coordinating “Claves Prácticas Collection”. She is national and analytic expert in the Moves II Commission network on free movement, social security coordination and posting (2021-2025). She was previously a member of MoveS I (2017-2021) and FreSsco (2013-2017). Her recent research focuses on posted workers, Brexit and international telework. She has participated in the “Posting.STAT” project, funded by the European Commission. She has more than 70 publications, including legal monographs, articles in legal reviews and reports.

Active in the field of international social security coordination since 1995, his primary field of expertise is the determination of the legislation applicable on a mobile worker. He currently works for the Belgian National Social Security Office as Advisor-general in charge of a team of dedicated experts in the Department for International Relations. Lawyer by education and civil servant, he covers the subject both from a juridical and practical point of view. As one of the architects of the LIMOSA declaration mechanism he is in charge of the management and the various updates of this online application.

Founder and Partner at Momentius Legal Public Affairs (LPA) Martin Enquist Källgren is founder and partner at Momentius LPA, a Swedish boutique law firm specialized in providing legal services to European companies that operate in Sweden. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in EU law from the University of Gothenburg and provides legal advice, compliance, and litigation to clients in cross-border situations. He is an expert in EU internal market law and has particular experience in the areas of posting of workers, labour and social security law, migration law and tax law. He also works with policy and regulatory affairs, providing legal public affairs services for clients at national and European level.

Law graduate of the Warsaw University. He completed his legal counsel’s training in The Circuit Chamber of Legal Counsel in Warsaw and obtained his legal counsel qualifications. In 2004-2016 he worked in Labour Law Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, where since 2013 he held the post of Chief of International Labour Law Department. Participant in legislative works at the EU level (inter alia, Working Time Directive, Posting of Workers Directive) and national level (amendment of working time provisions and terminal contracts specified in Labour Code). He has been specialising in practical aspects of labour law, leading workshops and lectures on labour law. Author of publications on Polish and EU labour law. In Konfederacja Lewiatan he is responsible for coordination of social security systems and the area of international and labout law.

Founder and Partner at Momentius Legal Public Affairs (LPA) Fabrizio Vittoria is partner at Momentius LPA, a Swedish boutique law firm specialized in providing legal services to European companies that operate in Sweden. He works on daily basis with several areas of EU law, in particular internal market law. He provides legal advice to European businesses on, among others, posting of workers legislation and Swedish labour and tax law. Since 2019, he has been appointed as legal expert for Sweden for an European Legal Advice service operating under contract with the European Commission where he provides legal advice on free movements of services, persons and other EU matters. In the past, he has worked both at the Swedish Migration Agency as well as lawyer for civil society organizations where he gained a strong experience in migration law. He has practised EU law in two international law firms in Brussels and he has worked for the European Commission at DG competition. He holds a post- graduate master (LLM) in EU law at the Institute for European Studies at ULB in Brussels and he is member of the Spanish Bar Association in Madrid (Spain).

Helge Kleinwege is a Policy Officer in the Unit “Skills, Services, Professions” at DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs (GROW) of the European Commission. He is a member of the team developing EU policies for the Single Market for services. Part of his responsibility is the development and implementation of the common electronic form for the declaration of posting of workers, jointly with the Member States and DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. Helge is a German qualified lawyer and holds a Master’s Degree in European Law from the University of Stockholm. He joined the European Commission in 2008 as a member of the Legal Coordination Unit of DG Internal Market and Services, working later in various services’ areas as well as intellectual property.

Head of Global Mobility&Immigration Team. Has over 10 years of professional experience in the area of employment and immigration law advisory. Has managed projects concerning international worker mobility, including intra-corporate transfers and postings, as well as projects concerning local hiring of foreign nationals in Poland. Has represented clients in immigration proceedings before immigration authorities, appellate bodies and courts. Has provided comprehensive advice to clients on all HR aspects of employment of foreigners and held seminars and trainings on the subject. Author of press publications and commentaries on matters related to the employment of foreigners. Irrespective of immigration and global mobility practice, has vast experience in the area of employment law, including individual and collective employment matters, such as redundancies, TUPE transfers, restructuring, trade union relations, discrimination, bonus schemes and working time. Has represented clients in court litigations in employment law and social security law matters.

Karolina Schiffter has over twelve years of experience in handling labour law cases. A valued expert in the field of immigration law and employee relocations, she has built one of the largest immigration and global mobility teams operating within a law firm in Poland. Karolina regularly publishes articles in daily newspapers and scientific journals in addition to being an active member of international organisations, regularly invited as a speaker to international conferences.

Adam Rogalewski is policy officer for health and social services in the European Federation of Public Service Unions, having worked for the British public-services union Unison, the Swiss general union Unia and the Polish federation of trade unions, OPZZ. He has a PhD from London Metropolitan.

Hans is a Partner based in Frankfurt, where he leads Fragomen’s immigration services in Germany, Central Europe and the Nordics. His areas of focus are mobility and programme management for multinationals of all sizes.

Hans co-leads Fragomen’s European Consulting Services Practice group, with an emphasis on the Posted Worker Directive. He is also a key stakeholder in Fragomen’s worldwide consulting practice, with a special focus on audit and compliance.

Jez is a Manager at Fragomen’s Sheffield office, where he is the operational lead of Fragomen’s Posted Worker team. His role is focused on the automation and efficiency of posted worker notifications in all EU jurisdictions. Jez is also involved in internal process improvements to maximize operational efficiency.

Prior to joining Fragomen, Jez worked at a national law firm, where he managed a team who provided legal advice on multiple areas of UK law.

Jo is an Attorney and Partner of Fragomen’s Brussels office. She is responsible for managing corporate immigration compliance and advisory work for Belgium and Luxembourg.
In this role, she supports multinational and medium-sized corporations and individuals with effective and efficient immigration solutions for both inbound and outbound moves.
In addition, Jo co-leads Fragomen Consulting Europe providing companies with strategic mobility solutions for Europe underpinned by cutting-edge technology. Jo also drives Fragomen’ s Government Strategies initiatives in relation to the European institutions and represents Fragomen in the European Commission Expert Group on Economic Migration.
Jo has spoken as an immigration law expert at numerous national and international seminars and has authored a list of publications related to economic migration. Jo has contributed to various focused studies on migration for the European Commission, the OECD, IOM and the European Migration Network (EMN). Most recently, she was member of the Task Force of the OECD on Indicators for Talent Attractiveness (ITA), was consulted by the EC on the preparation of a legislative proposal establishing an EU Talent Pool and contributed to the EMN study related to the Integration of applicants for international protection in the labour market. She was also part of the legal experts group overseeing the Legal Migration Fitness Check and the Revision of the Legal Migration Directives.
Jo’s thorough knowledge of all aspects of global mobility, ranging from immigration to social security and individual labor law and posted worker solutions, gives her a well-rounded and strategic view of immigration-based advice on behalf of her clients and government stakeholders.
Jo speaks English, Dutch and French and has a working knowledge of Spanish.

Wim is Fragomen’s Client Engagement Director for Europe and he also co-leads the firm’s EU advisory team developing and offering Fragomen Europe integrated services. He is currently based in our Brussels office. In the first year he joined the firm, he led the Luxembourg immigration practice. Wim provides immigration and advisory related services to clients based or with operations in Europe. He particularly advises clients on the social security and employment related aspects in the context of immigration and co-develops Fragomen’s Government Strategies initiatives in relation to Europe.

Prior to joining Fragomen, Wim spent a significant number of years as an Executive Director and the Immigration and Social Security leader of the Global Mobility department in a big four firm, based in Rome, Italy. He gained vast experience in leading large global mobility projects and covering all advisory aspects, with multi-national clients from a range of different industries, including banking, industrial products, automotive, pharmaceuticals and consumer retail.

Wim speaks Dutch, English, Italian, French and German.

Senior Partner at Immigration Law Associates (ILA) EU Labour Mobility Solutions, Member of the International Bar Association, Tanel Feldman focuses his practice on social security coordination, labour law related to intra-EU mobility, and the interoperability between the social security coordination regulations and labour law. Tanel works to promote a better relationship between academic debate and practice and defends the principle of primacy of EU law as an opportunity rather than a constraint.

COMIC will be represented by two partners (partners in COMIC). Oberhammer Rechtsanwälte GmbH is specialised in the fields of immigration and employment law, in particular related to foreign employment in Austria and international secondments to Austrian companies as well as private international clients wishing to set-up businesses in Austria. This encompasses advising clients in labour law and corporate law issues, answering questions regarding immigration law, drafting employment/project/assignment agreements, applying for visas and many more related issues. Our clients trust in our expertise in the area of corporate migration. Furthermore, we offer all necessary ancillary services such as personal accompaniment to appointments with the relevant authorities and supporting clients on applying for subsidies and co- and health insurances. Our clients thus have the advantage of being serviced by a legal one-stop shop.

Kamil Matuszczyk – PhD in political science and administration, assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw as well as researcher at the Centre for Migration Research, University of Warsaw. His doctoral dissertation dealt with policy and politics in the area of international migration to the home care sector in Poland, highlighting the processes of inflow and outflow of workers. His research interests include atypical labour migration in Europe, processes of commercialisation of mobility, population policy and privatisation of home care. Principal investigator of two research grants on care migration funded by the National Science Centre. Author of more than 20 scientific publications and numerous expert reports.

Magdalena Klimczak-Nowacka – Seconded from the Labour Law Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy to the European Labour Office (ELA) as a national expert – national liaison officer for Poland since 2020. She deals with the cooperation of the national administration with the ELA. From 2014 to 2019, she worked as a counsellor for social and employment affairs at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the European Union in Brussels. During this period, she negotiated, as a representative of Poland, a number of important legal acts in the field of employment and social policy, including: the revision of the Posted Workers Directive, the directive on transparent and predictable working conditions, the so-called “work-life balance” directive, the regulation on the establishment of the European Labour Authority, draft revision of regulations on the coordination of social security systems. From 2009 to 2013, she worked as Deputy Director of the Labour Law Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, supervising the work of the international labour law and occupational health and safety units. She graduated in law from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and in international economic relations from the Warsaw School of Economics. She is registered on the list of attorneys of the Bar Association in Warsaw.

director of the Foreign Pensions Department at the Social Insurance Institution ZUS in Poland, responsible for implementation of EU regulations on the coordination of social security systems, international agreements on social security, including the agreement with Ukraine, as well as for the area of benefits for families, including programs such as Family 500+, Good Start 300+, Family Care Capital (Rodzinny Kapitał Opiekuńczy), as well as special solutions addressed to refugees from Ukraine. PhD in law, specializing in social security law, author of numerous scientific publications. Speaker at many seminars and international conferences. Member of expert groups at the European Commission, negotiator of international agreements on social security, member of the Steering Committee of the H5NCP Platform for combating cross-border frauds and errors in the field of social security at the European Commission and the Steering Committee of the European System of Electronic Data Exchange in the EU (EESSI). A member of numerous projects aimed at the digitalization and automation of processes in ZUS, in particular the head of the leading business in the field of implementation of the EESSI system in ZUS, digitalization of the A1 certificate application processes on ZUS Electronic Platform, A1 certificate validator, automation of granting benefits for families (automatic software for awarding 500+) and electronic data exchange with foreign institutions for combating cross-border overpayments

Task Coordinator for the Cooperation between the National Liaison Officers, working towards enhancing the administrative cooperation between Member States, in the field of labour mobility, with special focus on the IMI System and other electronic systems for the exchange of information. Previously working for 11 years at the European Parliament in Brussels, as an advisor to a vice-chair of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee and a former rapporteur to the Enforcement Directive on Posting of Workers. Responsible for labour law and social policy files, including Posting of workers, Transparent and Predictable working conditions, Mobility Package I. Between 2019-2021 worked as advisor to MEP Radosław Sikorski at the foreign affairs and security and defense committees. Studied Political Sciences at Universita’ degli studi di Perugia and Sapienza University in Rome.

Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, PhD is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt; currently Principal Investigator of the international collaborative project ‘Researching the transnational organization of senior care, labor and mobility in Central and Eastern Europe’ (2023–6), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Her research focuses on migration and mobility studies, senior care and social inequalities. She has published widely in leading journals, most recently, in 2022, ‘Making Migrants’ Input Invisible: Intersections of Privilege and Otherness from a multilevel perspective’, Social Inclusion, 10(1); Co-edited publications include: 2016, Family Life in the Age of Migration and Mobility: Global Perspectives through the Life Course (with M. Kilkey); 2020, German-language volume Postmigrant perspectives: Transnationalism, Gender and Care (with K. Huxel and others).

Beata Donay graduated from University of Cologne. Since 2004 she has been an attorney (Rechtsanwältin) at WENDLER TREMML law firm in Düsseldorf. Her main practice is advising foreign companies that post workers to Germany. She specializes in labour law, especially in posting of workers and cross-border services with a focus on labour law and social security systems. Mrs. Donay is co-author of the handbook “ABC of Polish entrepreneurship in Germany” concerning inspections conducted by German offices and institutions, released by the Trade and Investment Promotion Section of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Cologne.

He holds a Master in Business Administration (EHSAL – Brussels) and a Master in corporate law (Ghent University – Law Faculty). He is currently involved in the Network Statistics on free movement of workers, social security coordination and fraud and error. This network is set up by the European Commission DG EMPL to collect and analyse statistics and administrative data on those three fields. Within this network he is among others responsible for the annual report on the posting of workers. Furthermore he has published several papers and reports on the use and impact of posting from a perspective of sending and receiving Member States.

Agnieszka Paszkowski has a 16-year experience in French-Polish cooperation, she graduated in Finance and Banking at the Warsaw School of Economics and Management and Economics at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Since 2007 she is in charge of the French-Polish department at DBA whose role is to provide comprehensive solutions in the field of secondment, accounting, taxes, and social security for Polish companies operating on the French market. As part as her involvement in the French-Polish ecosystem and in cooperation with local administrations such as the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Paris, the Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Finance she is helping Polish investors and entrepreneurs to “understand” the complexity of the French market.

Rudi Vouk, born 1965, is attorney at law in Klagenfurt/Celovec, Austria. He studied law in Vienna, Austria and began to work as legal trainee in the legal office Grilc & Partner (now Grilc-Vouk-Ranc-Zenz) in 1991. He has been an attorney at law since 1997. The legal office Grilc-Vouk-Ranc-Zenz is based in Klagenfurt/Celovec, Austria, with branch offices in Vienna, Austria and Ljubljana, Slovenia and a representative office in Graz/Gradec, Austria. The main focus of work of the legal office lies in resolving cross-border legal issues, especially between Austria and Slovenia, but also in relation with Central Europe and the countries of Ex-Yugoslavia. In Austria Mr. Vouk became broadly known especially in connection with trials regarding the enforcement of rights of the Slovenian minority in Carinthia, Austria, as he had achieved many important and sensational decisions by the Austrian Constitutional Court in these trials. Furthermore, Mr. Vouk has already carried out many proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union. He was in particular involved in the case C-33/17 Čepelnik and had represented the client Mr. Maksimović in the case C-64/18 Maksimović. These proceedings effected significant changes within the Austrian legislation in the field of freedom to provide services within the European Union.

Advocate of Italian law, running his own law practice. Davide cooperates with a firm of professionals specialising in labour law (consulenti del lavoro). He advises entrepreneurs on matters related to labour relations, in particular international labour law (employment of foreign workers, cross-border posting of workers, etc.) and the protection of personal data and the right to privacy. In cooperation with one of the most well-known firms dealing with accounting and HR issues in Udine (northern Italy), Davide provides legal and accounting compliance services to foreign entrepreneurs posting workers in Italy, especially in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.

Head of Procedures, Supervision and Customer Service in Applicable Legislation Area Section in the Foreign Pensions Department of the Headquarters of Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS). He has been working in ZUS since 2003. Since 2007 he has been dealing with issues related to the determination of applicable legislation under EU provisions on the coordination of social security systems – including those related to the issuance of PD A1 certificates. As an expert, he has participated in a number of national and international events on the issue of coordination in the area of applicable legislation and has conducted trainings on this subject. Also participated in the negotiations of bilateral agreements on social security and in meetings with foreign social security institutions. He was a member of the team that prepared implementation of the Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI) system at ZUS.

Founder and activist of the Polish Association of Home Care Providers, for many years associated with the live-in care services. In 2017-2021 he was the Director of the Academy of Caregivers (an organization dealing with the education of live-in and professional caregivers, promoting the professionalization of the live-in care services sector). In 2018-2020, he collaborated with the Institut für Qualität und Innovation in der häuslichen Versorgung on the development of online educational programs for professional caregivers. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of VHBP (Verband für häusliche Betreuung und Pflege) – a German association of companies operating in the field of live-in care services (2016-2021).

Carita Rammus worked since 1999 in the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs in the field of labour law. This was followed by a secondment to the Estonian Permanent Representation to the European Union where she was responsible for the initiatives in the field of employment and social policies and where during the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union she focused on the negotiations concerning the review of the Posting of Workers directive and the European Pillar of Social Rights. From 2011 to 2016 she was seconded as a national expert to the European Commission DG Employment.

Since 2018, she is working in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion in the Unit responsible for the Labour Mobility, Public Employment Services and ELA where she coordinates the legal work in the field of labour mobility, in particular as regards posting and free movement of workers.

Graduated from the Warsaw Precision Mechanics and Automation Technical School. After emigrating to the Netherlands, he obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in International and European Law from the Faculty of Law at Tilburg University. He was associated with the University as a research staff member for several years.

2001-2003: lawyer in the mergers & acquisitions department at the Amsterdam law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek.

2008-2013: partner-attorney at law at the Amsterdam law firm Van der Steenhoven Advocaten NV.

Since 2014: managing partner at the Amsterdam law firm Lewandowski Advocatenkantoor BV, closely affiliated with Subteno Legal (formerly: ZJPL International Lawyers) in cases involving the Netherlands, Poland, and Germany.

Since 2008 member of the Dutch Bar Association (NOVA), registered on the list of foreign lawyers at the District Bar Council (ORA) in Warsaw.

Expert in the fields of international law, taxation, and labor law, as well as the automation of administrative processes related to human resources, payroll, and corporate compliance for companies operating across borders.

Since 2004, he has been advising corporate clients on cross-border service provision, with a particular focus on the posting of workers and freelancers (including non-EU nationals).

Investor and initiator of innovative startups related to automation and digitalization that offer risk minimization for compliance with European and national regulations on Directive 97/71, labor law, social security, and taxation, while simultaneously reducing administrative burdens through the digitization of HR and payroll processes related to cross-border posting of workers and self-employed individuals.

Co-author of the online service ZZPHuis.nl, which offers a platform that eliminates language barriers, streamlines the recruitment process for self-employed specialists by clients, while also providing paperless contracting and project management tools.

Co-founder and president of the Polish Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands (PCCNL.NL) and the Federation of Polish Chambers of Commerce Abroad (POLCHAMBERS). Board member of International Karate Organization Kyokushinkaikan Nederland.

Since childhood, he has practiced full-contact karate. Since 2019 Marcin holds the position of board member at the International Karate Organization Kyokushinkaikan Netherlands, based in Amsterdam.

Moderator of the ELMC Plenary Session. Publicist, reporter, columnist and investigative and economic journalist of Dziennik Polski journal and Polska Press Group – leading local media in Poland. Longstanding head of the West Lesser Poland branch of Dziennik Polski. Laureate of numerous important rewards and distinctions in journalism – national (including Freedom of Speech award, Grand Press, Economic Journalist of the Year) and regional (Grand Prix of Lesser Poland Journalists). Board Member of the Memorial Foundation for the Victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Co-founder of the Rotary Club in Oświęcim, Member of the Alumni Association for participants of the US Department of State Programme.

Attorney at Law. She is the founder of LMW Avocat law firm in Toulon (Provence-Alps-French Riviera).
She specializes in international commercial transactions and French and European labor law, including the legal aspects of posting workers to France. For 20 years, she has been supporting Polish companies in their expansion into the French market, providing comprehensive legal advice and fighting effectively for their rights in the courtroom (debt collection, Labor Inspectorate control, white-collar crime).

Attorney at Law at the Warsaw Bar Association, PhD in Law, academic teacher. Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Szczecin. Completed part of her studies in Germany at the University of Rostock. Her professional interests include in particular substantive and procedural civil law, contract law, corporate law and labour law, taking into account European law. She is the author of legal publications relating to, among others, evidence in civil litigation and liability for damages. The practical dimension of these issues is of particular importance to her. In her research, she therefore takes into consideration aspects arising from her legal practice, in which she advises entrepreneurs at the pre-litigation and court stage.

Lawyer and Economist. Vice President of Labour Mobility Initiative Association. Honorary Member of the Polish Social Security Association. Academic teacher. Expert in social security and labour law. Author of research and key legal opinions on the enforcement and basic Posting of Workers Directives and social security coordination. Participant of public consultations. Contributor to many international research and training programmes. Author of numerous publications on social security, labour law, public economy and administration. Supervisor of over 200 MA and diploma theses. Listed top ten best lecturers at the Cracow University of Economics.

Doctor of Law, legal counsel (OIRP Kraków), assistant professor in the Department of Public Economic Law and Labor Law at the Cracow University of Economics (UEK), translator of English (including translation of the Polish Civil Code into English) and Italian (including freelance translator at the Court of Justice of the European Union). Graduate of the Jagiellonian University School of American Law and the Catholic University of America School of Law, as well as the Jagiellonian University Postgraduate Studies in Labor Law. Recipient of a fellowship from the National Science Center. His professional and academic interests include, in particular, labor and social security law (including European law, with particular emphasis on cross-border aspects), the posting of workers (including its practical dimension) and economic law – including the law of the internal market of the European Union.

Organiser of European Labour Mobility Conress. President and co-founder of European Labour Mobility Institute. Vice President of Board of Polish HR Forum. Member of Labor Mobilis Competition Jury. The initiator of activities promoting fight against provisions of the proposal on the enforcement of Directive 2014/67/UE. Active member of public consultation. As promoter and expert on legal work abroad, he participated, inter alia, in the round table debates as a part of a European Commission project that developed guidelines on human right protection in the HR industry. Expert of labour market. Popularizer of the CSR. Economist, graduate of Cracow University of Economics.