Ryszard Waldemar Czerniawski (20 August 1952 – 31 August 2019) was a Polish

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and

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Biography

__NOTOC__ He studied

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at the

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and

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SGH Warsaw School of Economics SGH Warsaw School of Economics ( pl, Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie, ''SGH''journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

from 1976 to 1990, first at the

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and then at the weekly '' Prawo i Życie'' (''Law and Life''). In 2008, he received a

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degree from

Lazarski University Lazarski University (Polish: Uczelnia Łazarskiego; formerly known as Ryszard Łazarski Higher School of Commerce and Law In Warsaw) is a private Polish university located in Warsaw, founded by Ryszard Łazarski in 1993. The educational offer ...

and in 2015 habilitation from

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. Between 1990 and 1991 he was head of the Legal Department within the Capital Markets Development Division at the Ministry of Privatisation; and from 1991 until 1994 a Director of the Legal Department at the

Warsaw Stock Exchange The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), pl, Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie, is a stock exchange in Warsaw, Poland. It has a market capitalization of PLN 1.05 trillion (EUR 232 billion; as of December 23, 2020). The WSE is a member of th ...

, eventually becoming Vice-Chairman of the Board of the

in 1994, where he worked until June 2006. From 1994 until 2006, Czerniawski was a member of the Supervisory Board of the National Depository for Securities, and between 1998 and 2001 served as the board's Chairman. In the period 2001–2003, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Centrum Giełdowe S.A. and the company's subsidiary Infogiełda SA. He was the author of numerous publications on securities trading, including the first edition of '' Commentary on the Privatisation Act'' (1990), '' Commentary on Commercial Companies' Code provisions relating to Joint Stock Companies'' (2001), and '' Commentary on the Bonds Act'' (2003). He is also the co-author of a commentary on the Securities Public Trading Act (1996, 2001, 2002) and a guide for supervisory board members '' Between law and finance'' (2007). Czerniawski's other publications include '' Giełdy'' (''Stock Markets'') (1992), '' Poradnik akcjonariusza'' (''Shareholders' Handbook'') (1991), '' Statuty Giełdy Warszawskiej'' (''Statutes of the Warsaw Stock Exchange'') (1995), the English edition of '' Statutes of the Warsaw Stock Exchange'' (1999) and '' Zarząd spółki akcyjnej'' (''The Management Board of a Joint Stock Company'') (2007). From 2012 to 2015 he was also vice-

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. In 2000 he was awarded Knight's Cross of the

Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state decoration, state Order (decoration), order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on al ...

Death

He died on 31 August 2019.

References

External links

Warsaw Stock Exchange

list of articles connected with Ryszard Czerniawski from Gazeta.pl
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