MANAGEMENT BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND TAX LAW RESEARCH:
PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD
He studied law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Białystok, where he began teaching after graduation. In 2003, he obtained his doctorate, successfully defending his doctoral dissertation entitled “Local Tax Law.” In 2013, based on his publications: “Tax Resolutions in the Supervision of Regional Chambers of Audit,” “Tax Refund Institutions. Legal Nature and Functioning,” and “Considerations on Tax Refund Institutions,” he obtained a postdoctoral degree in legal sciences. A year later, he obtained an LL.M. degree from Michigan State University College of Law, and in 2020, he was awarded the title of professor of legal sciences. In 2019-2024, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Białystok. In 2024, he was elected Rector of the University of Białystok for a four-year term.
He specializes in tax law and is the author of over 230 publications in this field. He has also completed many projects and expert reports on tax law, presenting the results of his research at various conferences in Poland and abroad, including in Budapest, Gdańsk, Gdynia, Białystok, Győr, and Brno. In 2017, he traveled to China, where he lectured at Louyang Normal University and was awarded the title of honorary professor by the university's rector. In addition, in 2018, he also lectured at North University (China).
Between 2014 and 2019, Professor Mariusz Popławski was a member of the General Tax Law Codification Commission. He is, among others, a member of the editorial team of the journal Institutiones Administrationis, a member of the Central and Eastern European Society of Administrative Sciences and a member of the Scientific Council of the Ombudsman for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. In 2020, Professor Popławski was honored by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Białystok with an award for his contribution to the promotion of mediation. Prof. Mariusz Popławski is a member of the Editorial Board of the monthly magazine “Palestra,” which is the oldest legal periodical published by the legal community, appearing with short breaks for over 100 years. From 2019 to 2024, he served as Chairman of the Electors at the Eastern Arbitration Court in Białystok. Since 2024, he has been a member of the Entrepreneurship Council at the Marshal of the Podlaskie Province, a member of the Conference of Academic Schools in Poland, the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities, the KRASP Commission for Accreditation and Rankings, the KRASP Commission for Organizational and Legislative Matters, and a member of the KRASP Commission for Academic Sports.
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD
Michal Radvan is vice-dean for foreign and external affairs at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and Professor of Financial Law at the Department of Financial Law and Economics. He specializes in tax law. He is the author of 5 books and the author of approx. 65 chapters in scientific books. He presented his scientific research in more than 110 reviewed articles in prestigious journals and conference proceedings. He is a member of the European Association of Tax Law Professors and the International Center of Public Finance and Tax Law Research. https://is.muni.cz/osoba/radvan?lang=en. Email: michal.radvan@law.muni.cz.
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD
Miroslav Štrkolec works as a full professor of law at the Faculty of Law of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. He received his law degree in 2003, defended his dissertation on Tax Procedure: Its Legal Essence and Purpose in 2009, successfully completed his habilitation on Security Institutes in Tax Administration in 2018, and in 2023 he was appointed professor in the field of commercial and financial law.
SECRETARY OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD
Assistant in the Department of Tax Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok. A graduate of the University of Bialystok. Graduated with a master's degree in law from the Faculty of Law. Since 2016, a member of the Student Legal Clinic of the Workshop at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bialystok (currently a member of the supporting section). In December 2022, he completed his legal advisor's training at the Regional Chamber of Legal Advisors in Bialystok. From 2023 to 2024, he was a art-time Member of the Local Government Board of Appeal in Bialystok. In 2024 he obtained his doctoral degree by defending his dissertation entitled “Punishment of order in Polish tax proceedings". Academic interests: tax law, tax procedures, tax legislation and legal communication.
MEMBER OF THE BOARD
Rafał Dowgier – Professor of Law, employed at the Department of Tax Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Białystok. He specializes in local tax law, with particular emphasis on real estate taxation. Author of a number of studies in this field, including commentaries on the Act on Local Taxes and Fees. In 2014-2019, he was a member of the General Tax Law Codification Commission appointed by the Prime Minister. Co-author of the draft of the new Tax Ordinance, as well as many scientific studies on this act. In his scientific work, he also focuses on the issue of public aid in the area of tax law. Expert of local government institutions. Member of the Expert Team for Local Tax Law, the Tax Committee of Employers of Poland, and the Scientific Council at the Ombudsman for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.
MEMBER OF THE BOARD
Professor at University of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn, attorney at law, Habilitated doctor of legal sciences, Department of Financial Law and Tax Law UWM in Olsztyn, Poland. Graduated at Faculté de droit – Université d’Auvergne Clermont-Ferrand (France), Member of Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la Culture Juridique Française, having a Certificat Pratique de la langue française 1er degré obtained at Université Blaise Pascal in France. Author of more than 100 reviewed scientific publications, specialised in financial market law, international private law and comparative law with with particular emphasis on French tax law. ORCID Id : 0000-0001-6212-914X
MEMBER OF THE BOARD
Associate Professor of Administrative Law at Széchenyi István University, Faculty of Law, Department of Administrative and Financial Law in Győr. He completed his master's degree in 2002, defended his doctoral thesis (JUDr.) in 2004, and finished his Ph.D. studies in 2006 at Masaryk University, Faculty of Law in Brno (Czech Republic). He is editor-in-chief of the scientific, legal journal Institutiones Administrationis – Journal of Administrative Sciences in Hungary (https://administrativescience.com/), President of the Central and Eastern European Association for Public Administration in Hungary (https://kte.sze.hu/), External Member of the Board of Public Law Ph.D. Studies at the Masaryk University, Faculty of Law in Brno, Czech Republic. Founder and owner of a municipal consultancy company in Slovakia since 2017. His main research fields include local self-government regulation, local finances, local taxes, property taxation, and comparative administrative law.
MEMBER OF THE BOARD
Assistant professor at the Department of Public Finance and Financial Law at the University of Białystok. He specializes in financial law of the European Union and local government. In 2013-2021, a member of the Regional Adjudication Committee on violations of public finance discipline at the Regional Audit Chamber in Białystok, since 2011 a member of the College of the Regional Audit Chamber in Białystok.
MEMBER OF THE BOARD
Assistant professor at the Department of Public Finance and Financial Law, graduate of MA and PhD studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Białystok. In 2008, he defended a dissertation on the problems of controlling the establishment and application of tax law by the Human Rights Defender and the Constitutional Tribunal, written under the supervision of prof. dr hab. Eugeniusz Ruśkowski at the Department of Public Finance and Financial Law. She was honoured with the Higher School of Public Administration in Białystok Rector’s award. Author of over 80 scientific publications on the protection of taxpayers’ rights, the implementation of the state budget, the functioning of the National Revenue Administration and the history of human rights and the history of science, the total Impact Factor of which is 64.691 IF. He was a mediator in commercial cases at the District Court in Warsaw. In 2002, he was one of the founding members of the Center for Information and Organization of Public Finance Research and Tax Law of Central and Eastern European Countries - Association at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bialystok. In the years 2011-2012 he was the secretary of the Audit Committee, and in the years 2012-2019 the Secretary of the Management Board of the Center. He also belongs to the Drohiczyn Scientific Society.
