Beata Daszyńska-Muzyczka has been active in the banking industry for more than 30 years. From 1994 to 2016, she worked at Bank Zachodni WBK (now Santander Bank Polska). She has managed a number of divisions, including the implementation of strategic projects such as the new branch model and MiniBank24 e-banking, among others. She was responsible for restructuring and optimizing banking processes. She managed the Logistics and Real Estate Division. She also was the chairwoman of the supervisory board of BZ WBK Nieruchomości. She was responsible for the organizational culture transformation project called “Bank Nowej Generacji” (“New Generation Bank”). She also was the director of the HR Partnership Area. She has been a member of the Management Board of BZ WBK since 2015.
Beata Daszyńska-Muzyczka is the 20th president of BGK since the bank was founded nearly 100 years ago. Together with the other members of the Board of Directors, she prepared and implemented the four-year strategy for 2017–2020, which allowed the bank to focus more on its key business areas: financing and mobilizing capital for investment, exports and business development, supporting sustainable development, and efficiently distributing EU funds. Within four years, the BGK’s ability to mobilize capital for economic development has increased fivefold. In addition, while implementing the new strategy, the bank strengthened its activity outside Poland and opened foreign representative offices in London, Brussels, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. More are planned in the United States and in Asia.
BGK’s management board has prepared another strategy for 2021-2025. Its business pillars are sustainability, social engagement, international cooperation and business. As Beata Daszynska-Muzyczka says, “our ambition is to inspire, show the way and be a leader in programs focusing on sustainable social and economic development.”
President Daszyńska-Muzyczka is the originator and initiator of the establishment of the most important financial venture in Central and Eastern Europe – the Three Sees Initiative Fund – and has been the chairwoman of its supervisory board since 2019. The aim of the Fund is to develop infrastructure in the countries of the Three Seas region by financing transportation, energy and digital projects, which will promote integration and economic cohesion throughout the entire EU.
She is also the originator of 3W – woda, wodór, węgiel (water, hydrogen, carbon) initiative, implemented by BGK. The initiative was presented for the first time in August 2021 during the “3W: Water, Hydrogen, Carbon” Congress, organized for the first time during the 4th Forum Wizja Rozwoju in Gdynia.
The bank itself has become one of the ten best-rated companies in Poland in the Ranking of Socially Responsible Companies, and has won the TOP Employer title four times.
Beata Daszyńska-Muzyczka is a member of the College of the President of the Republic of Poland for International Policy, which is part of the College’s Office of International Policy. She is also a member of the Chapter of the Economic Award of the President of the Republic of Poland and the chairwoman of the program council of the Federation of Polish Entrepreneurs. She is also a part of the chapter of the council of the Wizja Rozwoju Economic Award, of the program council of the ICAN Management Review Congress, and of the council of the Wrocław Medical University.
She has received many awards, including the Lech Kaczyński memorial Prometheus Award, the title of Banking Manager of the Year 2018 by Gazeta Bankowa, and was also on Forbes magazine’s Top 10 Polish Female Managers list. She has been recognized by the Federation of Polish Entrepreneurs as the Economic Personality of the Year 2021. In the same year, she was awarded the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana by the President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid for her contribution to deepening friendly relations with Estonia. In 2023, she was appointed the Ambassador – the President’s special representative for the Three Sees Initiative – by President Andrzej Duda.
Graduate of economic universities with a specialization in corporate financial management and the Advance Leadership Program at ICAN Institute. She also graduated from the University of Cambridge – Judge Business School.
Privately, she is an aviation enthusiast, with a diploma of an aircraft accessories mechanic, in the process of obtaining a pilot’s license.