Marek Belka

Marek Belka
Marek Belka in 2010
11th Prime Minister of Poland
In office 2 May 2004 – 31 October 2005
President	Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Deputy	Jerzy Hausner Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka
Preceded by	Leszek Miller
Succeeded by	Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Finance Minister of Poland 7th Minister of Finance of the Third Republic of Poland
In office 4 February 1997 – 17 October 1997
President	Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Prime Minister	Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Preceded by	Grzegorz Kołodko
Succeeded by	Leszek Balcerowicz
Finance Minister of Poland 11th Minister of Finance of the Third Republic of Poland
In office 19 October 2001 – 6 July 2002
President	Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Prime Minister	Leszek Miller
Preceded by	Halina Wasilewska-Trenker
Succeeded by	Grzegorz Kołodko
Minister of Sport of the Republic of Poland
In office 1 September 2005 – 31 October 2005
President	Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Prime Minister	Marek Belka
Preceded by	None – post created
Succeeded by	Tomasz Lipiec
President of the National Bank of Poland
In office 11 June 2010 – 20 June 2016
President	Bronisław Komorowski (Acting) Bogdan Borusewicz (Acting) Grzegorz Schetyna (Acting) Bronisław Komorowski Andrzej Duda
Prime Minister	Donald Tusk Ewa Kopacz Beata Szydło
Preceded by	Sławomir Skrzypek
Succeeded by	Adam Glapiński
Personal details
Born	Marek Marian Belka (1952-01-09) 9 January 1952 (age 65) Łódź, People's Republic of Poland
Political party	Polish United Workers' Party (before 1990) Democratic Left Alliance (1999-2005) Independent (1990-1999 and 2005-present)
Spouse(s)	Krystyna Belka
Profession	Economist
Awards

Marek Marian Belka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarɛk ˈbɛlka]; b. 9 January 1952 in Łódź) is a Polish professor of Economics, a former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Poland, former Director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) European Department and former Head of Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland).

Belka graduated from the Socio-Economic Department of the University of Łódź in 1972 and later studied on scholarships at Columbia University, University of Chicago and London School of Economics. He holds an M.A. in economics of foreign trade and a PhD in economics from the University of Łódź. He became a professor in 1994.

From 1990 until 1996 he worked as consultant for the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Poland and the World Bank. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in 1997 and from 2001 to 2002; and as an economic consultant of the President of the Republic of Poland in the meantime. He also served as Adviser to the Prime Minister of Albania from 1997 to 2001 and to JP Morgan for Central and Eastern Europe from 2002 to 2003. In 2003 he was responsible for economic policy in the interim coalition administration of Iraq. In 2005 he was a candidate for the post of OECD Secretary General, but lost to José Ángel Gurría.