Lecturer, instructor, social entrepreneur, and traveler. In her work, she has conducted various workshops and lectures, including on international management, international project and program management, behavioral economics, intercultural communication and negotiation, crisis management, human resource management, learning and innovation, corporate social responsibility, and career and business development. She is a social innovator, actively involved in social and volunteer work.
Monika obtained a master’s degree in economics from the University of Economics in Krakow. She completed postgraduate studies in European Integration – European Funds, Studies for European Civil Servants at the Józef Tischner European University in Krakow. She received a scholarship from the Irish government and obtained a master’s degree in economics in European economics and public affairs at University College Dublin in Ireland. In addition, she obtained a master’s degree in science commercialization as part of a joint program between the University of Texas in the USA and the University of Łódź. Monika has participated in numerous international and national courses in management, leadership, and communication.
Monika has over 20 years of professional experience, including 10 years of studying and working abroad (Ireland, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Germany, Qatar, China, Austria, Uganda). In addition, she spent six months in active leadership on the Executive Board of Stagiaires at the European Commission and European Parliament in Luxembourg, and four years actively involved in the management of AIESEC Krakow in Poland and Germany, where she served as AIESEC Culture Ambassador and Intercultural Trainer.
Monika was an employee of the Office of the Committee for European Integration in Warsaw before Poland’s accession to the European Union and a civil servant at the Ministry of Health in Poland. She joined the National Health Service Counter Fraud & Security Management Service in London, United Kingdom (UK), and on behalf of the Ministry of Health she participated in a 5-years pan-European project that led to the creation of the European Healthcare Fraud & Corruption Network (EHFCN) based in Brussels, Belgium. Monika also worked as an assistant to the managing director at the consulting firm MRI Worldwide in Augsburg, Germany.
She completed an internship at the European Commission in Luxembourg in the Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection in the field of public health. She established and managed the European Office for European Funds and Aid Programs at the National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw. As a lecturer at the Józef Tischner European University in Krakow, she taught international project management. She has also taught at universities, including Nanning Normal University in Nanning, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, and Lingnan University in China. She is a visiting professor in the International Business Double Degree program at Sanya University in China and a member of the Global Alliance Berkeley College in the United States.
Native Polish speaker, fluent in English, good knowledge of German, basic Chinese and Russian. She is interested in new technologies and loves to travel. Monika enjoys skiing, horse riding, and sailing. She is a ski and sailing instructor in Poland and the UK. She is a member of the Polish Sailing Association and the Royal Yachting Association in the UK, as well as a member of the Royal Temple Yacht Club in Ramsgate.