Speakers
Piotr Otawski
General Director of Environmental Protection
- General Director of Environmental Protection
- Legal counsel, doctor of legal sciences, MA in environmental protection. He specializes in environmental law, spatial planning law and investment process regulations. He has many years of jurisprudence, legislative and negotiation practice
- In 2008, he was one of the persons responsible for the preparation and implementation of a comprehensive reform of the law on environmental impact assessments and management of living nature resources.
- In 2009 -2014 Deputy General Director of Environmental Protection. He represented Poland at the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention), sitting in the bodies of the Convention – as Chairman of the Working Group and then Chairman of the Convention Bureau and Chairman of the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention.
- From 2012 to 2016, he was a member of the Codification Committee for Construction Law.
- From 2014 to 2015, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Environment – Chief Conservator of Nature.
- Since 2022, member of the Expert Commission on Climate and Space at the Ombudsman working on the assumptions of environmental spatial planning reform.