Graduated from the Faculty of Industry Economics in 1972 at the University of Economics in Poznan, while in 1992 - from the Faculty of Social Sciences in Banking and Finance at the University of Stockholm.
As of 1992, as the Plenipotentiary of the Bydgoszcz Voivode for the establishment of a Regional Chamber of Audit, he contributed to the accomplishment of the Chamber’s tasks assigned under an act of law to the Bydgoszcz Voivode. In the years 1992–1993 he represented the State Treasury and acted as Chairman of the Council of Bydgoszcz Construction Bank Inc., while in the years 1993–2017 he performed the function of President of the Regional Chamber of Audit in Bydgoszcz. In 1994, he chaired a team of authors of the report 'Subsidizing of Commissioned, Entrusted and Other Non-Own Tasks by Communes in 1993', prepared for the Local Self-Government Committee of the Parliament of the Republic of Poland on the basis of surveys collected from 2457 communes in Poland with the participation of all Chambers. The author of the study was the Regional Chamber of Audit in Bydgoszcz.
As of 1994 until the present day, member of the Editorial Board of ‘Finanse Komunalne’ responsible for the "Budget" column, as well as the editor of three "Municipal Finance" monothematic editions. Content editor of the Conference of ‘Finanse Komunalne’ held by the National Council of Regional Chambers of Audit (KRRIO) and Wolters Kluwer Poland in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Since the inception of Regional Chambers of Audit in 1993, since the very beginning, he has actively been involved in foreign contacts of the Chambers. In 1994–1996 he cooperated with the Audit Commission (Great Britain), and within the framework of that cooperation – coordinated the work of the Polish team. The final result of a series of nine workshops was the textbook ‘Control over Municipal Finance’ - the first such an extensive study on the Polish market in the field of methodology, techniques and procedures for controlling the financial management of municipalities, inter-municipal associations, municipal legal entities and local self-government councils - control carried out by Regional Chambers of Audit in Poland.
As a result of cooperation established in 1994 with the American Peace Corps, four weekly workshops were held for audit inspectors and presidents of the Chambers on "Shaping Interpersonal Relations in the Audit Process", which he co-organized and hosted.
After establishing cooperation with EURORAI (The European Organization of Public Finance Audit Institutions) in 1998 he participated in seven consecutive congresses of the Organization (until 2016). At the 5th Congress in Barcelona in 2004, he represented the National Council of Regional Chambers of Audit on the occasion of the admission of the National Council and three local chambers (including the Regional Chamber of Audit in Bydgoszcz) to the Organization. At the next, 6th Congress that was held in Crans Montana in 2007, he presented the experiences of Polish Regional Chambers of Audit and delivered his paper entitled "New Forms of Commissioning and Financing Public Tasks as a Challenge for Regional Chambers of Audit in Poland".
Established contacts and communication with the EURORAI authorities resulted in two international conferences being held in Poland: in 2006 in Wroclaw - "Public Debt Audit" and in 2009 in Bydgoszcz - "Social Assistance Audit". The organizational aspects of the conference in Bydgoszcz, which he himself hosted, were highly rated by the EURORAI authorities, which was subsequently expressed by the invitation to moderate one of the sessions of the conference in Barcelona (October 2009).
On behalf of the National Council of Regional Chambers of Audit, in charge of cooperation with EURORAI.
Publications (2015-2019)
T. Dobek, Działalność regionalnych izb obrachunkowych w 2014 r. Omówienie Sprawozdania Krajowej Rady Regionalnych Izb Obrachunkowych złożonego do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, „Finanse Komunalne” 2015/7–8, s. 115–146.
T. Dobek, Działalność regionalnych izb obrachunkowych w 2015 r. Omówienie Sprawozdania Krajowej Rady Regionalnych Izb Obrachunkowych złożonego do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, „Finanse Komunalne” 2016/7–8, s. 126–157.
T. Dobek, Działalność regionalnych izb obrachunkowych w 2016 r. Omówienie Sprawozdania Krajowej Rady Regionalnych Izb Obrachunkowych złożonego do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, „Finanse Komunalne” 2017/7–8, s. 125–156.
T. Dobek, Współpraca zagraniczna regionalnych izb obrachunkowych w Polsce, „Finanse Komunalne” 2019/1–2, s. 20–40.