Ph.D. Dorota Pyć, head of the Department of Maritime Law at the University of Gdańsk, was elected as the president of the Port of Gdańsk Authority. She has been associated with the Port of Gdańsk since 2019 - as a member of the PGA Supervisory Board on behalf of the City of Gdańsk. Krzysztof Kaczmarek, who was temporarily acting president, was appointed vice-president for infrastructure. They will take up their positions on March 27.

Resolutions on the election of members of the PGA management board as a result of the qualification procedure were adopted on March 26 by the company's Supervisory Board.

Dorota Pyć is a law graduate at the University of Gdańsk. She obtained the degrees of doctor of legal sciences and habilitated doctor of legal sciences (specializing in public international law) at the Faculty of Law and Administration (WPiA) of the University of Gdańsk.

She has been associated with her alma mater since 1995 - initially as a doctoral student at the Department of Maritime Law, and then as an assistant professor at the Department of Public International Law. In 2013, she obtained the rank of associate professor. Since 2014, he has been head of the Department of Maritime Law.

But her career path was not only related to the university. She had the opportunity to use her knowledge of maritime law as Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy, then at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development, where she was responsible for maritime economy. She ended her term of office after the change of government in 2015.

In the years 2008-2019, she was a member of the Maritime Law Codification Commission. Since 2018, she has been an arbitrator of the International Court of Arbitration at the National Chamber of Maritime Economy in Gdynia. Since 2022, she has been the director of the Maritime Economy Research Center of the University of Gdańsk and the head of the postgraduate studies "Education for sustainable development: offshore wind energy". She works in the Commission for the Implementation of the Social Responsibility of Science Policy of the University of Gdańsk and the Women's Club of Fahrenheit University, of which she is the founder.

The scientific achievements of the new president of the Port of Gdansk include works in the field of maritime law, the law of the sea and the law of marine environmental protection and sustainable development. She is the author or co-author of over 150 original scientific articles and book chapters, 2 monographs, commentaries on laws and glosses, and the editor of over 20 publications.