Speakers

Katarzyna Matuszewska, engineer. Polish naturalized Italian, currently living in Belgium. After graduating in mechanical engineering, she worked in the technical sector of real estate administration in Poland. She soon after moved to Italy and worked for a private company on renewable energy projects with particular attention to building integrated solutions and planning and managing photovoltaic power stations for a total power of 7MW. Later on, as a freelancer she designed mechanical installations for residential, hotel, office and hospital buildings. Afterwards she worked for the Italian Ministry of Justice where she designed and managed various types of structures and installations in 17 penitentiary buildings spread over two regions.

She is currently responsible for the sector of soft facility management at the European Parliament in Brussels. This includes fields such as quality controls, waste collection, cleaning and management of green spaces for a total annual budget of 15-mln euro in accordance to EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) regulations and Green Public Procurement rules.