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TERESA CZERWIŃSKA APPOINTED VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK

Teresa Czerwińska is the new Vice-President and Member of the Management Committee of the European Investment Bank (EIB). She will take up her duties on the 1 st of March. The EIB’s Board of Governors appointed Mrs Czerwińska, a Polish national, on a proposal from the Finance Minister of the Republic of Poland.

Prior to becoming EIB Vice-President, Mrs Czerwińska was a member of the board of the National Bank of Poland since June 2019. Between January 2018 and June 2019, she was Minister of Finance of the Republic of Poland. In this role, she was also a Governor of the Euro pean Investment Bank. Before that, she held the position of Undersecretary of State responsible for the state budget at the Ministry of Finance (from June 2017 to January 2018) and, before that, at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (December 2015 to June 2017) in Poland.

Czerwińska is a Professor of Economics at the Warsaw University. She specialises in finances and risk management.

COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL HAS ANNOUNCED THE PROMOTION OF AGNIESZKA KRZEKOTOWSKA Colliers International has announced the promotion of Agnieszka Krzekotowska to the position of partner. Agnieszka will remain director of Real Estate Management Services. As the director of Real Estate Management Services, Agnieszka leads a team of over 95 experienced professionals and supervises the portfolio of real estate managed by Colliers in Warsaw and regional cities in Poland. Her duties include development of the property management business, including the acquisition of new projects and searching for technologies and solu tions to expand the company's current range of services. As a partner, Agnieszka will also be responsible for co-creating the company's strategy. In 2019, Colliers International took over the management of 14 properties with a total useable area of 200,000 sq m, which increased the company's portfolio to 1,250,000 sq m. The newly acquired properties included office buildings from Szczecin and Łódź, which initiated Colliers' operations in these cities. Last year, as many as 18 new employees joined Agnieszka's team. Agnieszka has been working at Colliers since 2009, from the beginning in Real Estate Management Services. Recently, she has held the position of director responsible for customer relations, and previously she was a property manager. Agnieszka has over 12 years of experience on the commercial real estate market, during which she has cooper ated with the largest funds operating on the Polish market, such as: Patrizia, Union Investment, Tristan Capital Partners and Allianz. Since 2015, Agnieszka has been a member of the prestigious Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and a member of its advisory panel in Poland. She is a graduate of the Leadership Academy for Poland.

MONIKA WAKULSKA AND MICHAL KULIG HAVE JOINED TO SAVILLS

PANATTONI EXPANDS ITS TEAM IN THE NEWLY OPENED NETHERLANDS OFFICE The Panattoni office in the Netherlands was opened last December. Jeroen Gerritsen took the helm. Now, the Amsterdam team is joined by Niels Heijndijk as Director for Structured Finance and Operations. Among other tasks, he will be responsible for managing investor relations, including raising capital and financing for new investment projects in the developer’s newly created market.

Two new professionals have joined commercial real estate advisory firm Savills. Monika Wakulska strengthened the Landlord Representation team of the firm’s Office Agency while Michał Kulig reinforced the Industrial Agency. Monika Wakulska became Associate Director in the Landlord Representation team of the Office Agency. At Savills, she will be responsible for the letting of properties owned by Deka Immobilien (North Gate and International Bussines Center A and B) and by Cromwell Property Group (Signum Work Station and Innova Work Station B and C). Monika has 13 years of commercial real estate experience and is a licenced property manager. Prior to joining Savills, she spent five years at BNP Paribas Real Estate. During her professional career, she has advised both landlords (including AEW Europe, GTC and VIG Fund) and tenants (including Danone Group, Gemius SA, Gide Loyrette Nouel and Pernod Ricard). Monika’s experience in cooperation with tenants will help further expand the services of proactive commercialisation of office space delivered by the Landlord Representa tion team at Savills. Michał Kulig joined the Industrial Agency as a senior consultant with responsibility for advising tenants in the Upper Silesia region and in Krakow and Rzeszów. Prior to joining Savills, he worked for JLL. Michał has a strong track record of working with food, oil and logistics industry clients and draws on his in-depth expertise of south-eastern Poland. He is a graduate of the Cracow University of Economics and a licenced property valuer.

for the many prize winning and prestigious projects developed by MRP. Prior to joining Meijer Realty Partners, Niels worked for 12 years at Rabobank Group, including 10 years at FGH Bank – a subsidiary of the the Group specialising in financing commercial real estate.

Niels has 12 years’ experience in property finance. For the past year and a half he worked as Director Project Finance and Treasurer at Meijer Realty Partners, which is one of the largest Dutch commercial developers. He was responsible Niels Heijndijk has a master’s degree in business administration majoring in finance from the University of Groningen. He also completed the Master of Real Estate executive postgraduate program at the Amsterdam School of Real Estate (ASRE).