Tomasz Jedynak, PhD

Currently assistant professor at the Department of Risk Management and Insurance at the Cracow University of Economics (CUE).

A graduate of Finance and Accounting at CUE. He completed post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Management of the CUE “Research project management and commercialization of research results”. In 2015, he defended the doctoral dissertation titled “Efficiency and risk of socially responsible investment funds” at the Faculty of Finance of the CUE. The dissertation was granted the First Award of the President of the Management Board of Warsaw Stock Exchange and was awarded the CUE Rector’s Award.

Additional activity

Dr Jedynak was a participant of the NUS-Santander Doctorate Workshop on Advanced Financial Risk Management at the National University of Singapore. In 2016, he completed a six-month research fellowship at the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw. He was a visiting professor at the Lviv Institute of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine, National University “Lviv Polytechnic” and the University of Economics in Prague. He actively cooperates and lectures at the Podhale State College Of Applied Sciences in Nowy Targ.

In the past, he was closely associated with business practice as an employee of a brokerage house and an investment bank. As part of his professional activity, he is involved in the provision of strategic consulting services for enterprises as well as preparation of profitability studies and business plans. He has sat on the supervisory boards of capital companies for several years.

Publications

Dr Tomasz Jedynak is an author and co-author of several dozen publications in the field of economics and finance, co-author of two academic textbooks and other didactic publications. He is also a contractor of several scientific and research projects covering finance issues, including in particular social security and the functioning of the pension system. Lecturer at postgraduate and doctoral studies. Participant of many international and national conferences and seminars.

Research interests

His research interests focus around issues related to retirement security. The topics of his scientific work include issues of modernizing pension systems and the functioning of voluntary forms of old-age security. In addition, he also deals with behavioural aspects of the functioning of pension systems and economic and social challenges related to the aging of the population