Welcome to the Poland Chapter
Come and join a campaign to increase gender diversity at senior levels. Better decisions are made when women and men come together at the table.
Poland

About 30% Club Poland
We are a campaign group of Chairs and CEOs taking action to increase gender diversity at board and senior management levels in Poland.
Gender balance on boards and in senior management encourages better leadership and governance and contributes to better board performance, and ultimately increased corporate performance.
We aim to improve organisational culture and inclusion through the efforts of Chairs and CEOs who are committed to better gender balance at senior levels, and throughout their whole organisations.
Our aim
To achieve no all-male boards by 2025
and to increase the share of women on boards to 20% by 2025
and eventually to at least 30% by 2030.
Activate
Activate senior leaders
Engage chairs and CEOs to drive change and support organisations in their diversity & inclusion endeavours, with a specific focus on gender.
Influence
Influence those with power to drive change
Influence at a national level on diversity related topics and work complementary to other national initiatives.
Enable
Enabling future women leaders
Support the development of talent pipeline through mentoring, executive education scholarships and board-ready initiatives.
Polish women are one of the most entrepreneurial women in Europe, very aware of their contribution to GDP growth. It is high time for corporate boards in Poland to strengthen their ranks with more women leaders. Women’s representation on boards today is still low compared to the UK and the US. I am very happy that the 30% Club has decided to invest and expand its activities to Poland. I trust that, as usual, Poland will positively surprise and overdeliver.
Poland's progress
We are measuring our progress on the 140 largest Polish companies listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange included in WIG20, mWIG40 and sWIG80 indices. To calculate share of women on boards we are taking management and supervisory boards combined.
Progress
2019
13.8%
2020
15.5%
2021
16.6%
2025
??
Members
We look for CEOs and Chairs to join us as Members to lend their name to the campaign to publicly support gender diversity at board levels, to sign up to our targets with the aim of delivering these, to actively assist in recruiting and spreading the word to other Chairs and CEOs, and to support initiatives to build the pipeline of women for executive and non-executive roles.
Company | Member name | Job Title | Chapter membership |
---|---|---|---|
Atende S.A. | Marcin Petrykowski | Chief Executive Officer | Poland |
Bank BPH | Paweł Banduski | Chief Executive Officer | Poland |
BASF Polska | Katarzyna Byczkowska | Managing Director | Poland |
Benefit Systems | James Van Bergh | Chair of the Supervisory Board | Poland |
Blue Media | Andrzej Antoń | Chair of the Supervisory Board | Poland |
Credit Suisse Poland | Aneta Kocemba | Managing Director | Poland |
Emitel | Andrzej Kozłowski | Chief Executive Officer | Poland |
Franklin Templeton Investments Poland | Katarzyna Majchrzak | Board Member | Poland |
IBM Poland and Baltics | Jarosław Szymczuk | General Director | Poland |
Inelo Group | Magdalena Magnuszewska | Chief Executive Officer | Poland |
Steering committee
Joanna Ałasa
Senior Analyst, NN IP Poland
Member, Investor Group Coordinator
Iweta Opolska
Director of Gas Trading Office, PKN ORLEN SA
Member
Cezary Żelaźnicki
Inclusion & Diversity Leader, PwC Central and Eastern Europe
Member
Aleksandra Włodarczyk
Senior CEE Trader, ING Poland
Member, Coordinator
Magdalena Kołodziejczyk
CEO, M+G
Member
Ludmiła Falak-Cyniak
CEO, Aegon Pension Fund
Member
Milena Olszewska-Miszuris
CEO, WM Advisory
Co-Chair
Aleksandra Gren
Executive Board Member, Fiserv Poland
Co-Chair
That's what we found for you.
Our work
We are working to bring about real transformation by providing information and help for your business to improve diversity and inclusion at all levels.
We are present in the media and we want to be an important voice in the public debate on the role of women in business.
We are staging events to evolve thinking around the issue of diversity. We are speaking at conferences, universities and various events on diversity and inclusion.
We create, promote and build on research, in order to help institutions direct their energies toward activities that make a difference in driving change.
All the essential informations about the Club and our activity in Poland on one page
Diversity on Supervisory Boards, November 2021
“Diversity on Supervisory Boards 2021” examines the reasons for low level of female nominations to supervisory boards by domestic institutional investors. The report was initiated by 30% Club Poland Investor Group and it shows the results of a survey conducted among institutional investors in Poland.
Majority of surveyed institutional investors’ representatives recognise the problem of low diversity of Polish listed companies’ boards. 50% of respondents consider broad diversity on boards (gender, education, age, etc.) in their investment decisions. When narrowing down to the gender diversity of corporate boards, 1/3 of respondents take this indicator into account, while incorporating ESG criteria into their decision making.
However, institutional investors rarely nominate women to supervisory boards – only one in ten respondents regularly does so. As the key reasons, they point to the insufficient number of women in their own candidate bases and the less active way in which women promote their candidacies.
Based on these declarative responses, a solution to the problem of low female representation on supervisory boards is within reach, and institutional investors have the potential to change the status quo. 16.6% of respondents consider the gender ratio of the board when nominating a candidate. 43.8% are not doing so yet, but say that ongoing changes in the market environment may prompt them to take this aspect into account in the future.
Women on boards and company performance, January 2021
The share of women on boards of 140 Polish listed companies from the WIG20, mWIG40 and sWIG80 indices was a mere 13.8% by the end of 2019. Additionally, progress to rectify this imbalance has been slow, with an increase of only 3.8pp observed over the last decade. Firms with a higher representation of women on boards saw competitive advantages in terms of higher net margins and lower share price volatility. This data is drawn from “Women on boards and company performance”, a report published by CFA Society Poland.
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As asset owners and asset managers we are responsible for the stewardship of the investments we make on behalf of our members and clients. Part of that responsibility includes the assessment of the boards and senior management teams of our investee companies. We believe boards that genuinely embrace cognitive diversity, as manifested through appropriate gender representation and a broad spectrum of skills and experience, are more likely to achieve better outcomes for investors. There is increasing research to support this hypothesis.
Main Aim
As members of the 30% Club Poland Chapter Investor Group, we are committed to promote our target of a minimum of 30% women on boards of 140 largest WSE-listed companies by the end of 2030. By boards we understand management and supervisory boards combined. We support the interim target of 20% of women on boards by the end of 2025 and no board without a woman by the end of 2025.
Inwestorzy instytucjonalni dla różnorodności we władzach spółek
30% Club Poland Investor Group w pierwszą rocznicę uruchomienia kampanii w Polsce opublikowała raport podsumowujący rok swojej działalności. Raport wskazuje przykłady działań na rzecz różnorodności we władzach spółek giełdowych (m.in. promowanie najlepszych praktyk, wykonywanie prawa głosu na walnych zgromadzeniach, raportowanie działań). Przedstawia również w jaki sposób inwestorzy instytucjonalni aktywnie wchodzą w dialog ze spółkami oraz podsumowuje działania mające na celu podnoszenie świadomości znaczenia różnorodności płci we władzach spółek.
Read the report (Polish version)
We joined the 30% Club initiative because it fits very well in our company’s DNA. We are committed to promoting a strong women’s voice in the business world. There is a long way to go ahead of us, because so far only 15% of the boards seats of the largest Polish listed companies are occupied by women. But with small steps, the reality around us is changing. As a large and responsible institutional investor, we want to take part in the change. We are convinced that the diversification of companies’ executive boards is conducive to their development.
Małgorzata Barska, CEO NN IP
As employers, we care about a diverse work environment in many ways, and we see many benefits for the entire team. However, we can go one step further and, taking advantage of the fact that our funds are stakeholders in many companies, we can also influence the behaviour of other market participants. We hope that our presence at general meetings and our activity during meetings with management boards will allow for an increase in participation of women in the highest governing bodies of listed companies, because we consider the current level of 15% to be unsatisfactory and in the long run detrimental to the issuers themselves.
Paweł Homiński, CEO Noble Funds
To support our members in increasing the representation of women in top positions, we are offering the opportunity to participate in an intercompany and cross-sector mentoring program.
The program has been run, in partnership with specialised firm Moving Ahead, around the world for 8 years. During that time, it trained over 12,000 participants from more than 200 organizations in 31 countries. The programme builds and strengthens the necessary pipelines to achieve parity of women in leadership and board roles. It matches women mentee from all levels of the career pyramid to more senior mentors (men and women) from another organisation.
The programme is a proven, practical and powerful way to achieve greater gender balance at senior levels within organisations, as well as delivering on gender pay gap reporting, and broader diversity and inclusion goals.
More information in January 2022.
News & Events
We are working on exciting initiatives in Poland. Stay updated on our latest events, news and more.
Supporters
Our entire activity of the 30% Club Poland would not be possible without the help of supporting institutions who donate their time and resources to help organise conferences and events, support and host meetings of the 30% Club Poland Chapter, support the CEOs and Chairs with knowledge of how to drive changes, how to introduce and embed diversity&inclusion in their companies.











Ambassadors
You can also get involved in our campaign without being the CEO or Chair of the company or an institutional investor, but simply an ambassador of our ideas. You can help spread the word about 30% Club Poland and assist in various events and press opportunities.
Ewa Dąbrowska
Managing Director, Nationale-Nederlanden Polska
Ambassador
Barbara Stepnowska
member of the Programme Board of Open Eyes Economy on Tour
Ambassador
Ewa Radkowska-Świętoń
President of the Association of Independent Supervisory Board Members
Ambassador
Katarzyna Nabrdalik
President of the Teach for Poland Foundation
Ambassador
Piotr Rybicki
Professional member of supervisory boards
Ambassador
Mariola Szymańska
President of EFPA Poland
Ambassador
Olga Petelczyc
Managing Partner, Arete Audit
Ambassador
Ewa Sowińska
Partner, ESO Audit
Ambassador
Andrzej Pośniak
Managing Partner, CMS
Ambassador
Katarzyna Piasecki
CEO, Founder of ENNBOW
Ambassador
Justyna Matuszak-Leśny
Partner, ESB Legal
Ambassador
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