Grzegorz Kołodko
| Grzegorz Witold Kołodko | |
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| Finance Minister of Poland | |
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In office 28 April 1994 – 4 February 1997 |
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| President | Lech Wałęsa, Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Prime Minister | Waldemar Pawlak, Józef Oleksy, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz |
| Preceded by | Henryk Chmielak (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Marek Belka |
| Finance Minister of Poland | |
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In office 6 July 2002 – 16 June 2003 |
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| President | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Prime Minister | Leszek Miller |
| Preceded by | Marek Belka |
| Succeeded by | Andrzej Raczko |
| Personal details | |
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28 January 1949 Tczew, People's Republic of Poland |
| Profession | Economist |
Grzegorz Witold Kołodko (pronounced [ˈɡʐɛɡɔʂ kɔˈwɔtkɔ]; born 28 January 1949 in Tczew, Poland) is a distinguished professor of economics. A key architect of Polish economic reforms. He is the author of New Pragmatism original paradigmatic and heterodox theory of economics. University lecturer, researcher,the author of numerous academic books and research papers. As Polish Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance in 2002-03 played a leading role in achieving the entry of Poland into the European Union. Holding the same position in 1994-97 led Poland to the OECD. The founder and Director of TIGER – Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research at the Kozminski University in Warsaw. Consultant to such international organizations as the IMF, World Bank, UN, and the OECD. Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities. Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Sciences. Honorary Chairman of China's Public Diplomacy Institute and a Non-resident Senior Fellow, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, Professor HUST, Huangzhou University of Science and Technology, Wuhan; Distinguished Professor of Emerging Markets Institute, Beijing Normal University, Beijing.
After graduating from Warsaw School of Economics in 1972 and gaining his Ph.D. in 1976 he lectured at the same university and was appointed to a Chair in Economics in 1984. In 1985-86 he was Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. In 1982-88 Advisor to the Governor of National Bank of Poland. Participant in the historic ‘Round Table’ negotiations in 1989, which led to the first post-communist government in Eastern Europe. He was a Member of the Economic Council of the Polish Government in 1989-91.
Research Fellow at the United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) in Helsinki in 1988, 1989, and 2002. In 1989-94 Director of the Institute of Finance, Warsaw. He was consultant to the International Monetary Fund Research Department in 1991 and 2000, and to the Fiscal Policy Department in 1992 and 1999. In 1994 Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Finance and Monetary Policy in Tokyo. In 1997-98 was appointed to the Sasakawa Chair and Distinguished Research Professor in Development Policy at WIDER. In 1998 Visiting Fellow at the World Bank and Senior Research Fellow at Yale University.
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