Current/ previous positions: Chair, Polish Confederation of Employers (Poland)

BIOGRAPHY

With a career spanning the public and private sectors, Henryka Bochniarz is one of the most highly-respected women leaders in Poland. In 1991, she held the post of Poland’s Minister of Industry and Trade and was a candidate for the office of the President of Poland in 2005. She is the Founder and Chair of the Polish Confederation Lewiatan, the largest organization of private sector employers in Poland, and served as President of Boeing Central and Eastern Europe from 2006-2015. She has also been a Supervisory Board Member of FCA Poland SA and Orange Polska SA and formerly a Board Director at Unicredit, a financial services company based in Italy. In addition, she is also a Founder of the Congress of Women Poland, the largest social movement in the country, which brings together all types of women for the purpose of spotlighting the contribution made by women to the economic and political transformation of Poland, identifying their most important achievements, and working to increase to the presence of women in the public sphere.