Joanna Fornalczyk holds a Ph.D. in economics in the field of management sciences and is a certified internal auditor. Since 1999, she has cooperated in many advisory projects and proceedings in the field of competition protection, as well as in many projects in the field of public aid, implemented for both donors and beneficiaries of public aid in the construction, chemical, transport, entertainment and science parks sectors. She speaks Polish and is an expert on European competition protection law and state aid with knowledge who has much knowledge about the decision-making practice of the European Commission and the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Joanna Fornalczyk has experience in conducting trainings on topics related to state aid. She is a graduate of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Management at the University of Łódź and MA studies at the Faculty of Management at the University of Łódź, having specialised in Strategic Management. She is a two-time scholarship holder of the Ministry of National Education.