Professor Marek Kośny, Vice-Rector for Research at Wrocław University of Economics and Business, has been appointed to the Scientific Council of the Institute of Labour and Social Studies (IPiSS) for 2026-2030.
Letters of appointment were presented to the Council’s fourteen members in Warsaw on 28 October by Sebastian Gajewski, Deputy Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy. Professor Kośny is the only member from WUEB and begins his second consecutive term.
IPiSS is a research institute operating since 1972 under the supervision of the minister responsible for labour. Among other things, it estimates the social minimum and the subsistence minimum. Its Scientific Council adopts the Institute’s statute, approves long-term research directions, reviews research and financial plans and evaluates the work of research staff. According to the Ministry, it will also prepare recommendations to support public decision-making.
Professor Kośny heads the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research and specialises in the quantitative analysis of income, inequality and poverty. He wrote the chapter on the cost of Social Services Centres in a monograph published by IPiSS. He chairs the Scientific Council of the Polish Economic Society and is a member of the Statistics Council to the Prime Minister and of the Family and Demography Council to the President of the Republic of Poland.
The University congratulates the Vice-Rector on his reappointment! More on the Council’s work and Professor Kośny’s research https://badania.uew.pl/en/what-does-good-social-policy-cost-professor-marek-kosny-reappointed-to-the-ipiss-scientific-council/.
