In September 2025, Sylwia Bialek-Gregory has joined the Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne (EWI) as Executive Manager Research & Consulting. In this role, she is jointly responsible with the Executive Manager Commercial for the strategic and academic development of the institute. Her research interests focus on the optimal design of energy markets as well as the economic assessment of policy instruments.
She studied International Relations as well as Finance and Banking at the Warsaw School of Economics and earned her Ph.D. in Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt. She subsequently worked at New York University, first as a postdoctoral researcher and later as an economist. She then joined the scientific staff of the German Council of Economic Experts (“Wirtschaftsweise”), where she focused on environmental and energy policy. As a Head of Unit in the Council, she was initially responsible for the area of Microeconomics and later for Public Finance and Productivity.