Alicja Józefa Kornasiewicz (born March 19, 1951 in

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)Posłowie X kadencji 1989 - 1991
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and served as Secretary of State and Vice Minister at the Ministry of State Treasury in Poland. She is a managing director of the Warsaw office of

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and chair of

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Education

Kornasiewicz studied at Szkoła Główna Planowania i Statystyki. She received a PhD degree from

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. In 1978, she passed exams as

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; she is a member of the ''National Chamber of Statutory Auditors'' in Poland. She attended the six-week Advanced Management Programme at

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and the Executive and Advanced Management Programme at

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Career

At the first free elections after the

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in Poland, Kornasiewicz became a member of parliament from 1989 to 1991, representing the

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(election district of

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). In the government of

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, she served as Secretary of State in the Polish Ministry of the Treasury from 1997 to 2000. Prior to that she worked for the

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(EBRD) as a senior banker in London. Kornasiewicz was head of emerging European countries investment banking at

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and a member of the Executive Committee at the bank's ''Markets & Investment Banking Division''. From 2010, she was

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of Polish

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. In January 2012, Kornasiewicz joined Morgan Stanley as a senior adviser in investment banking covering Poland and

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(CEE). She is a managing director of the Warsaw office of the firm. Kornasiewicz is a jury member at

Galeria Chwały Polskiej Ekonomii The membership in the Polish Economy Hall of Fame ( pl, Galeria Chwały Polskiej Ekonomii) is an award for Polish economists. Idea In 2005 the Polish edition of German business magazine ''Manager Magazin'' established ''Galeria Chwały Pols ...

. In May 2020, Kornasiewicz became chair of

, having been a non-executive director since May 2015.

References

External links

Alicja Kornasiewicz joins Morgan Stanley as a Senior Adviser in Poland and CEE
press release, Morgan Stanley, January 26, 2012 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kornasiewicz, Alicja 21st-century Polish businesspeople SGH Warsaw School of Economics alumni Living people Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Members of the Contract Sejm 1951 births Polish women in business 20th-century Polish women politicians 21st-century businesswomen