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Marcin Święcicki
Marcin Święcicki
Minister for Foreign Economic Relations
	In office; 1989–1991
Prime Minister	Tadeusz Mazowiecki
City mayor of Warsaw
	In office; 3 November 1994 – 30 March 1999
Personal details
Born	17 April 1947 (age 77); Warsaw
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	University of Warsaw; George Washington University;
Website	Święcicki Blog

Marcin Święcicki (born 17 April 1947) is a Polish politician and economist. He is a former deputy minister of economy, former minister for foreign economic relations as well as a former city mayor of Warsaw.

Early life and education

Święcicki was born in Warsaw on 17 April 1947.^[1] He graduated from the University of Warsaw.^[2] He attended George Washington University and Harvard University for postgraduate studies and received a PhD from George Washington University in economics.^[1]

Career

Święcicki was the secretary general of the Consultative Economic Council from 1982 to 1989.^[2] He served as deputy minister of economy and then minister for foreign economic relations from 1989 to 1991 in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki.^[1]^[3] In 1989, he was also elected to the Parliament and served for two terms, from 1989 to 1991 and from 1993 to 1996.^[4] He was the mayor of Warsaw between 1994 and 1999.^[5] Then he served as an advisor to the President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus on economic reforms from 1999 to 2000.^[1] He was the director of economic and environmental affairs at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) between February 2002 and 2005 ^[4]^[6] In 2011, he was again elected to the Parliament.^[2]

He is the president of the support committee for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews^[7] and president of European Movement Poland.^[8]

Views and work

Although Święcicki was not a member of the Solidarity group, like other members of the Mazowiecki cabinet, he was acceptable to the group and had Solidarity-aligned economic views.^[9]

Święcicki is the author of several books which mostly focus on economics.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "O mnie". M. Święcicki Blog (in Polish). Archived from the original on 6 November 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Józef Retinger – the Polish Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi". Pro Europa. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
^ "Ukraine at Crossroads" (PDF). Canada Ukraine Foundation. 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Speakers and moderators". Open Ukraine. 2009. Archived from the original on 25 August 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
^ F. Stephen Larrabee. "Ukraine and Transatlantic Integration" (Book chapter). Center for Transatlantic Relations. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
^ "Secretariat - Office of the Coordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities". OSCE. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
^ "The director of the Museum of the-History of Polish Jews resigned". Virtual Shtetl. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
^ "Rucheuropejski Wladze". Virtual Shtetl. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
^ John Feffer (1992). Shock Waves: Eastern Europe after the Revolutions. Cambridge, MA: South End Press. ISBN 9781895431469.
^ "Święcicki, Marcin". WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 3 December 2013.