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CONSULTANTS
Prof. EWA MARCHWINSKA
President, Polus Technologies International, LTD
Katowice, Poland
Tel: 0048 32 222 48 46 Fax: 0048 32 318 20 84
Mobile: 00 48 606 34 71 40
e-mail: polus@polus.lm.pl and marchwinska@perasgroup.com
THE COMPANY
Polus Technologies International, LTD (PTIL) was formed as a Polish majority -owned company in 1998 and has been active in the Polish market since the second quarter of 2000. The major objective of PTIL's activity is to deliver to Poland and other Countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), technology systems that will solve the major environmental and health problems facing these countries.
A US company, Polus Technologies, Inc., (PTI) which has its Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, joins PTIL. The major responsibility of PTI, on behalf of PTIL, is to identify, technically evaluate, and deliver the best US technology systems to solve Poland's and the CEE's major problems. PTIL has the responsibility to identify and quantify the problems in the areas of interest. Together the two companies can assure both the problem holder and the technology vendor that technologies and problems are evaluated rationally and systematically, and that implementation and operation will occur in an acceptable fashion.
Dr. Ewa Marchwinska serves as president of Polus Technologies International, LTD. She has more than thirty years experience in the areas of environmental restoration, pollutant migration and fate, and technology management.
Polus Technologies International, LTD, President
Prof. Ewa Marchwinska served as the Director of the Institute of Industrial Areas (IETU). During her tenure as IETU Director, Prof. Marchwinska negotiated the Agreement for Technical Exchange and Cooperation in the Area of Environmental and Hazardous Waste Management between the US Department of Energy (DOE) and IETU. The responsibility of the partnership was to conduct cost-effective, innovative research and development activities to address the environmental contamination in Poland, at DOE facilities in the US and at other sites in Europe. This cooperative effort, which includes technology commercialization, has been maintained for the last ten years, and has served to address the common objectives of both parties. The common factors were the creation of an environmental partnership for the application of risk-based analysis as applied to environmental decision-making, environmental technology development, demonstration and commercialization, and for related management issues, including policy, legal and financing issues. The multiyear agreement established a framework for two efforts, bioremediation and phytoremediation, in which Prof. Marchwinska was directly involved. In 1997 IETU was judged to be the best environmental institute between 11 institutes judged in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. While working at IETU, Prof. Marchwinska organized and coordinated numerous internationally funded projects and programs. Two of these projects were funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), of which one was assessed by the EPA as one of the major achievements in bilateral scientific cooperation between Poland and the US.
UND/ECE Project entitled Environmental Planning and Management: Air Pollution, and was appointed the Head if the International Center for 10 European Countries. In addition Prof. Marchwinska was a representative of Poland within the UN ECE Working Group on Effects, and was employed as an advisor for environmental monitoring for the Republic of South Africa. In 1996, Prof. Marchwinska was appointed Proxy for the Minister of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry within the Board of the Council for Regional Contract for Silesia.
Prof. Marchwinska has been a member of numerous organizations, including the Ecological Advisory Board to the President of the Republic of Poland, the Expert's panel for the Environmental Protection Committee in the Polish Parliament, Head of the Supervisory Board for EcoFund, and The National Council for Environmental Protection. Prof. Marchwinska serves as an advisor to the Minister of Environment, and has been a member of the editorial boards of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment and the International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, and has served on the Polish Academy of Science's "Man and Environment" committee. Prof. Marchwinska has many years of teaching experience, including university lecture in Poland and abroad, training of WHO fellows in Poland, and lectures associated with environmental protection for industry and government. She presently is appointed to the Public Health faculty at the Medical University of Silesia and acts as the Head of the Department of Environmental Security and Toxicology.
Prof. Marchwinska earned a M.SC in Biology, a Ph.D. in Ecology, and a D.Sc. in Environmental Protection from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. She has also been awarded with a title Professor of Courtesy at the Florida State University. She is author and co-author of more than 90 publications. Prof. Marchwinska was awarded four times by the Minister of Environment and once by the Voivodship Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Katowice for her contribution to the advancement Polish Environmental Protection.
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