Leszek Balcerowicz - Definition and Overview

Leszek Balcerowicz (born January 19, 1947) is a Polish economist and Chairman of the National Bank of Poland. He is famous for leading the Polish economic transformation program (shock therapy) in the 1990s.

From September 1989 to August 1991 and between October 31, 1997 and June 8, 2000 he was a Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Poland. Between 1995 and 2000 he was the chairman of Unia Wolności, then a centrist political party. On December 22, 2000 he became the Chairman of the National Bank of Poland.

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3rd Republic of Poland (since 1989)	Leszek Balcerowicz | Karol Lutkowski | Andrzej Olechowski | Jerzy Osiatyński | Marek Borowski | Grzegorz Kołodko | Marek Belka | Leszek Balcerowicz | Jaroslaw Bauc | Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner | Marek Belka | Grzegorz Kołodko | Andrzej Raczko | Mirosław Gronicki