Speakers

Mr. Witold Karczewski is a well-known and respected person due to many years of professional and social activity for the development of economic self-government, the integration of business circles, the activation of contacts between national and foreign communities. For more than 25 years, he has been actively involved in Contractus, continuously developing and extending its focus on agriculture.

He initiated his activity through social activities in the structures of the leading economic organizations of the region, namely the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bialystok, Podlaskie Business Club. Mr. Witold Karczewski was the initiator of establishing a joint consolidation initiative under the name Podlaskie Economic Forum on the basis of the existing economic self-government organizations of Podlaskie Voivodship. After the initiative, in 2001 he was elected for the annual term of office of the President of the Podlaskie Economic Forum, and he was twice appointed. The Podlaskie Economic Forum now brings together 15 business organizations and is described as a successful regional bottom-up entrepreneurial initiative.

For several years Mr. Witold Karczewski has also served as the social president of the St. Izydor Oracz association an organization working for the development and promotion of Podlaskie agriculture, which is an important element of the region's economic potential.