Henryk Majchrzak is the chair of the Polish Member Committee of the World Energy Council. He graduated as an electrical engineer and then obtained a PhD and an MBA in economics. He has been part of the professional energy engineering sector since the beginning of his career in 1986, and in 2005 he became President of the Management Board and General Director of BOT Elektrownia Opole S.A. He was then President of the Management Board of BOT Górnictwo i Energetyka S.A, before becoming Energy Department Director at the Ministry of Economy. He is currently President of the PSE Operator S.A. Management board. He is a Member of the Committee for Energy Sciences in Warsaw, Vice President of the Polish Society of Electricity Transmission and Distribution (PTPiREE), and a member of the Steering Committee for scientific research and development work in the area of security and defense (NCBiR).

Lidia Gawlik is the Secretary of the Polish Member Committee of the World Energy Council. She is also a member of the Cleaner Fossil Fuels Systems Knowledge Network (Committee) of the World Energy Council, and was an active member of the WEC study groups “Europe's Vulnerability to Energy Crisis” – 2008 and “Sustainable global energy development: the case of coal” – 2004. She graduated from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow as a specialist in mining. From that University she then received a PhD in mining (1991) as well as a D. Sc. in mining economics (2010). In the years 1996 – 2003 she was Deputy Director of the Economics and Finance Department in the State Agency for Restructuring of Hard Coal Industry in Katowice. She is Deputy Director for Research in the Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow since 2003, and an associate professor of the Institute. She is also a Member of the Mineral Economy Sustainable Development Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.