Associate Professor Agnieszka Alińska is working at the Warsaw School of Economics since 1999 and is currently the Head of the Department of Treasury at the Collegium of Socio-Economics.

The scientific and research interests of Prof. Alińska focus on issues related to alternative finance as well as the functioning and stability of the financial system, with particular emphasis on cooperative banking and the activities of microfinance institutions in Poland and abroad. An important area of her scientific research are topics related to public finance and the finance of local government units. She is the author of several scientific articles and book publications devoted to issues of finance and banking as well as to alternative finance. She is a member of the Polish Association of Banking and Finance and the International Association of Public Finance based in Germany.

Her scientific activity is combined with working in public financial institutions such as the General Inspectorate of Banking Supervision, Polish Financial Supervision Authority and the Polish Bank Guarantee Fund. Since 2009, she has been an advisor at the National Bank of Poland.