Andrzej Olechowski

Andrzej Olechowski
Finance Minister of Poland 3rd Minister of Finance of the Third Republic of Poland
In office 26 February 1992 – 5 June 1992
President	Lech Wałęsa
Prime Minister	Jan Olszewski
Preceded by	Karol Lutowski
Succeeded by	Jerzy Osiatyński
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland 2nd Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Third Republic of Poland
In office 26 October 1993 – 6 March 1995
President	Lech Wałęsa
Prime Minister	Waldemar Pawlak
Preceded by	Krzysztof Skubiszewski
Succeeded by	Władysław Bartoszewski
Personal details
Born	9 September 1947 (1947-09-09) (age 64) Kraków, Poland
Political party	Civic Platform (–2009)
Spouse(s)	Irena Olechowska
Children	Sons Marcin and Jacek
Profession	Economist

Andrzej Marian Olechowski [ˈandʐɛj ɔlɛˈxɔfski] ( listen) (born 9 September 1947 in Kraków, Poland) is a Polish politician. He was one of the co-founders of conservative liberal party Civic Platform in 2001 with Maciej Płażyński and Donald Tusk. He served as Minister of Finanse (1992) in the Jan Olszewski's Government and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-1995) in the Waldemar Pawlak's Government. According to the Institute of National Remembrance, Olechowski in 1973 became an associate of Communist secret services, his operational names were "Renet", "Tener", "Must".^[1]. His operational contact at that time was General Gromosław Czempiński, and as Gazeta Polska wrote, both Olechowski and Czempiński still cooperate.^[2]

Olechowski was an independent candidate in 2000 presidential election, coming second after incumbent Aleksander Kwaśniewski. In 2002, he was Civic Platform's candidate for president of Warsaw but failed to even get to the second round. Afterwards he began moving away from politics.

He left the Civic Platform in July 2009 and started co-operating with the Democratic Party.^[3] He was one of the candidates in the 2010 Polish presidential election, but got only 1.44% of votes and didn't get into the second round.

• Director of Euronet, USA.
• 2005 functions
  • Supervisory Boards of Citibank Handlowy and Europejski Fundusz Hipoteczny;
  • Senior Advisor, Central Europe Trust Polska;
  • Director, Studiam Generale Europa;
  • Chairman, Citizens for the Republic.
  • President of The Central European Forum
• Activities
  • former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-95)of the Republic of Poland
  • former Minister of Finance (1992) of the Republic of Poland.
  • Chairman of the City Council in Wilanow (1994-98);
  • Economic Advisor to President Walesa (1992-93; 1995);
  • Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations (1991-92);
  • Deputy Governor, National Bank of Poland (1989-91);
  • Director of Department, Ministry of Foreign Economics Relations (1988-89) and National Bank of Poland (1987-88);
  • Economist, The World Bank, Washington, D.C. (1985-87);
  • Economic Affairs Officer, UNCTAD, Geneva (1982-84);
  • Department Head, Foreign Trade Research Institute (1978-82).
• Education
  • Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (PhD, 1979)
  • Attended the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

• Trilateral Commission member.
• Bilderberg Group member.
• Fellow of Collegium Invisibile.^[4]

References

External links

• http://www.olechowski.pl/

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