Jarosław Zagórowski has been managing JSW since 2007. He has graduated from the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, where he obtained a degree from two faculties: mechanics and construction of machinery at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty and marketing and management at the Organization and Management Faculty. In 2004, he completed his PhD studies at the Mining Faculty of the Mining and Metallurgical Academy in Kraków.
Since 19 March 2007, he has been the President of the JSW SA Management Board. Before taking up this function he was associated with the company as the chairman of its Supervisory Board and, earlier on, from 30 June 2003, as a Supervisory Board member.
Nearly from the very beginning of his professional career, i.e. since 1997, he worked at the Ministry of Economy – inter alia at the position of advisor to the Undersecretary of State on mining, power sector, gas industry, liquid fuels and metallurgy, and advisor on initiation and implementation of the state industrial policy in metallurgy, coking industry, energy and non-energy mineral mining, and state energy policy matters. In 2002-2003, as the deputy director of the Industry Restructuring Department at the Ministry of Economy, he was responsible for the black coal mining sector and non-energy minerals; from 2003 he was the Minister’s Counsel at the Energy Security Department of the Ministry of Economy, Labor and Social Policy.
Deputy Chairman of Central Europe Energy Partners. Deputy President of Poland’s biggest and oldest employer organization – Pracodawcy RP. Member of the Coal Industry Advisory Board. Under his management in July 2011 JSW was floated on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
Winner of numerous awards and titles, among others:
- Distinguished with the title “Those who change Polish industry”.
- Honored with the prestigious Manager Award, granted by the publishers of the Business Magazine Manager for material acquisitions in strategic coking and power segments, ambitious investment program implemented by the Company and record-breaking results.
- Chosen as the “Personality of the Year 2011” in the Mining Success of the Year Competition for his actions towards development of a leading European Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa Capital Group. The Competition was organized by the Mining Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the School of Underground Operations.
The process of selection of the remaining members of JSW SA’s Management Board of the 8th term will be continued. Already on Thursday, 11 April, JSW’s employees will elect their representative in the company Management Board, and then, by Friday 12 April, applications for three further Deputy President positions will be accepted. The applications are scheduled to be opened on 16 April, and interviews and selection of Management Board members are planned for 25 April, with the possibility of extending the time to the next day if there is a larger number of candidates. Hence the full composition of the JSW Management Board of the 8th term will be known by the end of April.
