Witold Maciej Orłowski (born 1962 in
Łódź) is a Polish professor of economics. He is Director of the
Warsaw University of Technology Business School and a Member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Council. Beside, he acts as Chief Economic Adviser for
PricewaterhouseCoopers in Poland. In 2011 he was appointed Special Adviser (budget) to the
European Commission. Currently, he is the Rector o
Group of Universities
Biography
Orłowski graduated (PhD) in Economics from the
University of Łódź and later
Harvard University. Until 1992 he was working as assistant professor in Łódź and from 1993 to 1997 in the
World Bank (Department for Central Europe). He received his
habilitation
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from the
University of Warsaw and was appointed professor in 2007.
He was adviser to
Leszek Balcerowicz and, from 2002 to 2005, he held the post of Head of ''Economic Advisory Council to the Polish President'',
Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
In 1997 Orłowski co-founded the ''Independent Center for Economic Studies'' (NOBE). He held the post of Director of the ''Research Centre for Economic and Statistical Studies'' of the
Central Statistical Office and the
Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS). He is Secretary of the Scientific Council of the
Polish Economic Society
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, Member of the ''Committee on Economic Sciences'' (PAS) and the ''“Poland 2000 Plus” Forecast Committee'' (PAS).
Orłowski specialises in
macroeconomics
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For example, using interest rates, taxes, and ...
, in particular economic modeling,
economic forecasting and simulation calculations. He is 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 ...
.
Press release
from June 14, 2013, Association FINEXA (in Polish)
Selected bibliography
* ''Droga do Europy. Makroekonomia wstępowania do Unii Europejskiej'', Instytut Europejski, Łódź, 1998
* ''Optymalna ścieżka do euro'', Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warsaw 2004
* ''Stulecie chaosu. Alternatywne dzieje XX wieku'', Open Wydawnictwo Naukowe i Literackie, Warsaw 2007
* ''Świat, który oszalał czyli poradnik na ciekawe czasy'', Agora, Warsaw 2008
* ''W pogoni za straconym czasem. Wzrost gospodarczy w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej'', PWE, Warsaw 2010
* ''Świat do przeróbki. Spekulanci, bankruci, giganci i ich rywale'', Agora, Warsaw 2011
References
External links
Biography
website, Warsaw University of Technology
Short biography
Wprost (in Polish)
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20th-century Polish economists
21st-century Polish economists
Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Living people
1962 births
Academic staff of the Warsaw University of Technology