Teresa Czerwińska was appointed the Vice President of the European Investment Bank in March 2020. In this role, alongside looking after the constituency countries (Poland, Hungary, Croatia) she is responsible for Eastern Partnership countries as well as for Central Asia, China and Mongolia. She also oversees the matters of science, education, innovation, digital economy, and the InvestEU programme. Prior to becoming EIB Vice-President, Mrs Czerwińska was a member of the management board of the National Bank of Poland, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Poland, when she was also a Governor of the European Investment Bank. Earlier she held the position of the Undersecretary of State being responsible for the state budget at the Ministry of Finance. Before, in the years 2015 - 2017, she was the Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Teresa Czerwińska is a Professor of Economics at the Warsaw University specialising in finances and risk management.