President
Piotr Litwa, EngD
Piotr Litwa graduated in mining and geology, specialising in deposit exploitation technology, from the Faculty of Mining at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. He completed postgraduate studies in legal problems of mining at the University of Silesia. He holds a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Mining at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow based on a dissertation on mining geomechanics.
In 1988, he started working as a mining officer for the PRG, a mining company in Katowice. From 1992, he was consecutively employed as senior inspector and superintendent at the District Mining Office in Katowice. In 1995, he started working as a chief specialist at the State Mining Authority and then as department deputy director. In 2000, he became the director of the District Mining Office in Bytom. Then, he headed the District Mining Office in Gliwice. From 2005 to 2008, he was the vice-president of the WUG (State Mining Authority). In 2008, he took up the post of the President of the WUG, holding this position until 2014. From 2014 to 2015, he was appointed to the office of Silesian Voivode. On 5 June 2024, he was reappointed as the President of the State Mining Authority.
He has been involved in research and teaching activities for many years. From 2010 to 2013, he was a chairman of the steering committee of the strategic research project entitled "Improving work safety in mines", funded by the National Centre for Research and Development. He taught at the Central Mining Institute - National Research Institute, the Silesian University of Technology and the AGH University of Science and Technology. In 2018, he became prorector for training programmes at the University of Technology in Katowice, and in 2019, he rose to the position of rector. Subsequently, he worked as a chief research and technical specialist at the Department of Exploitation Technology, Rockbursts and Risk Assessment at the Central Mining Institute. He participates in the work of the Mining Commission and the Commission for the Protection of Mining Areas at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous research papers on safety in mining. As an expert in mining geomechanics, he has repeatedly participated in the work of the WUG’s commissions for investigating mining accidents.
Piotr Litwa holds the rank of general director of mining.