Leszek Balcerowicz
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Professor Leszek Balcerowicz |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Poland | |
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In office September 12, 1989 – December 23, 1991 |
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| President |
Wojciech Jaruzelski Lech Wałęsa |
| Prime Minister |
Tadeusz Mazowiecki Jan Krzysztof Bielecki |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Poland | |
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In office October 31, 1997 – June 8, 2000 |
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| President | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Prime Minister | Jerzy Buzek |
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Finance Minister of Poland 1st Minister of Finance of the Third Republic of Poland |
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In office September 12, 1989 – December 23, 1991 |
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| President | Wojciech Jaruzelski |
| Prime Minister |
Tadeusz Mazowiecki Jan Krzysztof Bielecki |
| Preceded by | Andrzej Wróblewski |
| Succeeded by | Karol Lutowski |
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Finance Minister of Poland 8th Minister of Finance of the Third Republic of Poland |
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In office October 31, 1997 – June 8, 2000 |
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| President | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Prime Minister | Jerzy Buzek |
| Preceded by | Marek Belka |
| Succeeded by | Jarosław Bauc |
| President of The National Bank of Poland | |
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In office January 10, 2001 – January 10, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz |
| Succeeded by | Sławomir Skrzypek |
| Chairman of the Freedom Union | |
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In office April 1, 1995 – December 18, 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Tadeusz Mazowiecki |
| Succeeded by | Bronisław Geremek |
| Member of Sejm | |
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In office October 20, 1997 – October 18, 2001 |
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| Personal details | |
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January 19, 1947 Lipno, Poland |
| Political party | Freedom Union, Partia Demokratyczna – demokraci.pl |
| Spouse(s) | Ewa Balcerowicz |
| Children | Maciej (b. 1972) & Wojciech (b. 1980) & Anna (b. 1984) |
| Profession | Economist |
Leszek Balcerowicz (pronounced [ˈlɛʂɛk balt͡sɛˈrɔvit͡ʂ]; born January 19, 1947 in Lipno) is a Polish professor of economics, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland and Deputy Prime Minister in Tadeusz Mazowiecki's government. He is famous for implementing the Polish economic transformation program in the 1990s, a shock therapy commonly referred to as the Balcerowicz Plan.
He is a professor at the world’s first university institute of postgraduate studies and training in European affairs, College of Europe.
In 1970 he graduated with distinction from the Foreign Trade faculty of the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (now the Warsaw School of Economics). Balcerowicz received his MBA from St. John's University in New York, in 1974 and doctorate from the Central School of Planning and Statistics in 1975.
He was a member of the Polish communist party (Polish United Workers' Party) from 1969 until the declaration of martial law in Poland, in 1981. In the late 1970s he participated in an economic-advisory team associated with the prime minister of People's Republic of Poland. In 1978–1980 he worked at Institute of Marxism-Leninism. Later he became an economics expert in the independent trade union Solidarity, and was forced to leave the communist party.
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