Gertruda Uścińska

Gertruda Uścińska (born 23 January 1958) is a Polish lawyer and political scientist. She is a Professor of Social Sciences at The University of Warsaw and the Polish Institute of Labor and Social Affairs in Warsaw (pl). Since 2016, Uścińska has been the President of Poland's Social Insurance Institution, which is the Polish state organization responsible for social insurance. She has also been an elected Chairwoman at the International Social Security Association.

Career In 1981 she graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia in Katowice. In 1987, she obtained a PhD in law at the Institute of Labor and Social Affairs. She became a lecturer at the Institute of Social Policy of the University of Warsaw in 1989, and later became an Associate Professor both at the University of Warsaw and at the Institute of Labor and Social Affairs. Uścińska has also been the Deputy Dean for student affairs at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Studies at The University of Warsaw. She was then elected the Chairwoman of the steering committee for the technical committee at the International Social Security Association, specializing in policy related to old age, incapacity for work, and death of a household breadwinner. She was also appointed to the management office of the International Social Security Association.

She has multiple times been listed in the ranking of the 50 most influential Polish lawyers in the Polish legal and business newspaper Dziennik Gazeta Prawna: in 2016 she was listed in 15th place, and in 2019 she was listed in 47th place. She has also been a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Policy Sciences at the Polish Academy of Sciences. and has been granted a Diploma of Recognition from the Polish Bank Association and the Center for Banking Law and Education for her work in the field of economic education. The Social Insurance Institution under her management was awarded the Polish Innovation Award by the Polish Agency of Entrepreneurship.

Selected Awards Member, Polish Academy of Sciences Virtus Est Perfecta Ratio medal