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Place of Birth: Tczew, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
About Grzegorz Kołodko
- Grzegorz Witold Kolodko (pronounced ['g??g?? k?'w?tk?]; 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 he played a leading role in achieving the entry of Poland into the European Union.
- Holding the same position in 1994-97, Kolodko 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, Member of Academia Europaea.
- 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.
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