(Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
Professor of economic studies, he served as the rector of Wrocław University of Economics and as the Dean of the Faculty of National Economics of this same University. In the years 2000 – 2004 he was a Senator of the 4th and 5th terms of the Republic of Poland. He was a member of the Monetary Policy Council in the years 2004 – 2010. Chairman of the Committee on Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the years 2007 – 2014. In 2010 he received the honorary award „In service to banking in the Republic of Poland”. Author of 34 monographs and more than 170 academic articles published in Poland, Germany, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. He is a regular economic commentator on television, radio and the press.