PGNiG: Changes in the composition of the Supervisory Board of PGNiG SA – supplementary information to current report No. 28/2016

Further to Current Report No. 28/2016 of April 1st 2016, the Management Board of Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA (“PGNiG”, the “Company”) presents additional information on Anna Wellisz, the Supervisory Board member appointed by the State Treasury as a Company shareholder pursuant to Art. 35.1 of the Company’s Articles of Association as of April 1st 2016.
Anna Wellisz
Anna Wellisz is a graduate of the University of Warsaw. She has completed a postgraduate doctoral course at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a postgraduate course in Management at the Warsaw School of Economics. Holding a PhD in the humanities, she has received scholarships from Fondation Intellectuelle Européenne and the Czesław Miłosz Foundation. She is also a mediator licensed by the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy.
In the early 1990s, having defended her doctoral thesis, Ms Wellisz carried out academic research, principally into mass social movements, and then began work as a consultant. As an expert at the NSZZ Solidarność Mazowsze Region’s Consulting and Negotiation Office, she provided advice to company committees. As a partner of Grupa Gospodarcza Sp. z o.o., she was responsible for organisation, marketing and management projects, as well as regional restructuring and company restructuring programmes. From 1996, Ms Wellisz occupied various management positions, working as Marketing Director at the Centrum Prywatyzacji Foundation, HR Deputy Director for employment policy and professional development at Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne S.A., and CIECH S.A.’s Deputy Director of the Management Board Office (then the Owner Supervision and HR Policy Office).
In 2001, Ms Wellisz moved to New York to serve as the First Secretary of the Economic and Trade Department of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland. Since 2006, she has occupied various supervisory management positions in public administration – initially at the Ministry of Economy and then, since 2008, at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. During her employment at the Ministry of Economy, she served as a member of the Supervisory Board of Spółka Restrukturyzacji Kopalń S.A. and Węglozbycie S.A.
Ms Wellisz is currently Deputy Director at the Department of Science of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.