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Marcin Święcicki
Polish politician and economist (born 1947) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marcin Święcicki (born 17 April 1947) is a Polish politician and economist. He is a former deputy minister of economy, former minister for foreign economic relations as well as a former city mayor of Warsaw.
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Early life and education
Święcicki was born in Warsaw on 17 April 1947.[1] He graduated from the University of Warsaw.[2] He attended George Washington University and Harvard University for postgraduate studies and received a PhD from George Washington University in economics.[1]
Career
Święcicki was the secretary general of the Consultative Economic Council from 1982 to 1989.[2] He served as deputy minister of economy and then minister for foreign economic relations from 1989 to 1991 in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki.[1][3] In 1989, he was also elected to the Parliament and served for two terms, from 1989 to 1991 and from 1993 to 1996.[4] He was the mayor of Warsaw between 1994 and 1999.[5] Then he served as an advisor to the President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus on economic reforms from 1999 to 2000.[1] He was the director of economic and environmental affairs at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) between February 2002 and 2005 [4][6] In 2011, he was again elected to the Parliament.[2]
He is the president of the support committee for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews[7] and president of European Movement Poland.[8]
Views and work
Although Święcicki was not a member of the Solidarity group, like other members of the Mazowiecki cabinet, he was acceptable to the group and had Solidarity-aligned economic views.[9]
Święcicki is the author of several books which mostly focus on economics.[10]
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