Ryszard Petru
| Ryszard Petru | |
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| Member of the Sejm | |
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Assumed office 12 November 2015 |
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| Constituency | 19 – Warszawa |
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| Born |
6 July 1972 Wrocław, Poland |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Political party | Modern |
| Spouse(s) | Małgorzata Petru (m. 1997) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Warsaw School of Economics |
| Profession | Economist |
| Website | Official website |
Ryszard Jerzy Petru (born July 6, 1972),Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish politician. He served as an assistant to several members of parliament in the 1990s. He has worked as an economist for the World Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers and several Polish banks. Since 2011, he has been the chairman of the Association of Polish Economists. He is the author of several books, including two children's books on economics.
In 2015, Petru founded a liberal political party .Modern (.Nowoczesna). The party received 7.6% of votes in the 2015 Polish parliamentary election. Petru was elected to the Sejm from Warsaw (19) district.
Ryszard Petru studied at the Faculty of Computer Science and Management of the Wrocław University of Technology, and graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics. During the second year of his studies at the WSE, he became an assistant of the Democratic Union MP Władysław Frasyniuk. On the recommendation of his lecturer Leszek Balcerowicz, Petru began working for the Center for Social and Economic Research. In 1995, he became Balcerowicz's assistant.
Between 1997 and 2000, when Leszek Balcerowicz was the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance, Petru served as his advisor, working as a consultant in the office of the Government Plenipotentiary for the Pension System Reform. In 1998, he started working as a teacher at the Warsaw School of Economics. He was a member of the Freedom Union at that time, being one of their candidates in the 2001 Polish parliamentary election, earning 4646 votes in the Warsaw suburbs district.
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