Biography

Dr Agnieszka Smoleńska is an Assistant Professor at the Florence School of Banking and Finance (FBF) and at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where she leads a three-year NCN grant-funded research project “The EU’s sustainability capitalism: identifying the varieties of financial markets transition”.

Dr Smoleńska is part of numerous international research networks on green finance, including the EBI’s Working Group on Finance, Climate Change and Sustainability. She has over 12 years of professional experience in EU and international policy, including at the European Parliament, European Commission, the FBF and as the head of the European desk of the analytical centre Polityka Insight. Her research interests span EU economic governance, banking regulation and sustainability transformation.