Lucyna Kopińska (born 1966) graduated from the Economics Department at the Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń. During her professional carer she participated in many post-graduate studies and trainings in finance, financial analysis and management, among other things, in management accounting at the Academy of Economics in Poznań and Master of Business Administration at the Banking University in Gdańsk.
She began her professional career in 1991 as Head of the Operations, Cash and Treasury Department in the Cooperative Bank in Bydgoszcz. In the years 1994 – 2001 she was employed with Bank Handlowy in Warsaw in the function of Manager of Customer Services and Head of Bank Accounts Department. Between 2001 and 2007 she was employed as Director of the Northern Region of the Transaction Banking Products Sales Office in Citibank Handlowy in Warsaw. From 2007 she has been employed by PKO Bank Polski S.A. as Regional Director of Retail Banking in Bydgoszcz, responsible in particular for: profits and effectiveness, the Bank’s strategy, its financial and business position, external and internal communication, managing the employment structure and personnel cost budget, the Bank’s marketing and promotional image, initiating and shaping developments. She manages 1215 regional employees in the territory of Kuyavia and Pomerania, as well as parts of Pomerania, Mazovia, Warmia and Mazuria, and Greater Poland provinces. During her whole professional career she has been expanding her knowledge in the area of human resources management.
In her current position of Retail Banking Director for the Region she manages talent and ensured that the Bydgoszcz Region was one of the three best regions in Poland year after year.
For many years Ms Lucyna Kopińska has been supporting the development of culture, art, education and sports in the region. She cooperates with such universities as the Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń, the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, the Banking University (Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa) and the Business University (Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki). She supports project work and gives her professional opinion on the development of curricula for Economics studies and on early-school education lectures in Economics for the youngest students as well as on the implementation of savings schemes in schools. Her long-term commitment and experience was appreciated by the academics at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, who appointed Ms Lucyna Kopińska to the position of Chair of the University Council for the first term of office 2019 -2020.