Joanna Świątkowska

Dr. Joanna Świątkowska is the Deputy Secretary General at the European Cyber Security Organisation - ECSO. She is also a member of the Research Council at NASK (Polish National Research Institute). In the years 2020 to 2022, she held the role of Director in the Supply Chain Cyber and Information Security team at UBS. She was the initiator and Programme Director of the European Cybersecurity Forum – CYBERSEC from 2014 to 2019. In addition, she worked as an Assistant Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology from 2018 to 2020 and cooperated with the Kosciuszko Institute as the Senior Cybersecurity Expert from 2009 to 2019. 

As a recognized cybersecurity expert and speaker, she has been involved in numerous national and international initiatives at the intersection of new technologies and public policies. Among others, she was a member of the Advisory Group for Cybersecurity of the Republic of Poland working within the Polish Presidential National Bureau of Security (2016-2017).

She was listed among the 100 Eastern Europe’s emerging technology stars by the Financial Times & New Europe 100 for 2017, as well as inserted among the Top 20 Women in Cybersecurity by the Women in Tech summit for 2019. In 2016 she took part in the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP) on Cybersecurity and Government Interoperability. 

She is a proud godmother of the regimental colours of the Regional Computing Center Kraków