Arkadiusz Krakowiak

Director of Market Monitoring Department of URE

Director of the Market Monitoring Department at the Energy Regulatory Office, responsible for, among others, monitoring of transactions concluded on the wholesale electricity and gas market for market abuse, monitoring of investment plans of generators, and conducting analyses related to the functioning of fuel and energy markets. It also cooperates with the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and regulatory bodies of the European Union member states on competition and consumer protection issues, as well as with the competent authority on financial market supervision. In the Energy Regulatory Office since 2018, from 2020 to 2021 he was Deputy Director of the Market Development and Consumer Affairs Department of the Energy Regulatory Office. From 1997 to 2017 employed in Elektrownia Kozienice starting from the position of specialist ending as Vice President for Commercial Affairs (in total over 15 years in senior management positions). In the meantime, between 2010 and 2013 he firstly created and then managed ELKO Trading supervising and coordinating all the issues connected with trading in electricity, property rights, CO2 emission allowances and fuels for the needs of the companies of ENEA Capital Group.

A graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, he also completed postgraduate studies in business (Jagiellonian University in Krakow), economic problems of the power industry transformation (Warsaw School of Economics) and electricity trading management (University of Trade and Services in Poznan). For many years a member of national industry organizations and expert teams, including those preparing changes in the model of energy market functioning in Poland.