Jan Krzysztof Bielecki

Jan Krzysztof Bielecki ([' jan kʂɨʂtɔf b ʲ sk ʲ ɛlɛt i] listen? / I, May 3, 1951 Bydgoszcz, Poland) is a liberal Polish politician, banker and economist.

Bielecki studied economics of sea transport at the University of Gdansk.

From 1980 on, he was economic adviser to the Solidarity trade union. In 1990 he became a member of the party Liberal - Democratic Congress ( Congress Liberalno - Demokratyczny - KLD ), developed in 1994 with the guided from the first non-communist Prime Minister of the post-war period Tadeusz Mazowiecki 's Democratic Union ( Unia Demokratyczna - UD ) for the Freedom Union ( Unia Wolności - UW ) merged. 2001 joined Bielecki to the newly formed Civic Platform ( Platforma Obywatelska - PO) over.

From January to December 1991, he was Prime Minister of Poland, he supported the reforms Leszek Balcerowicz his finance minister. In foreign policy, he continued to work closely with Bonn. He acted with Chancellor Helmut Kohl from the German - Polish neighborhood contract that both signed on 17 June 1991. As the first Polish prime minister, he visited the German minority in Upper Silesia and therefore put another highly regarded signal for the partnership between the two countries.

1992 to 1993 he practiced in the cabinet of Hanna Suchocka from the Office of the Minister for European Integration.

From 1993 to 2003, Bielecki representative of Poland at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He was chairman of the Polish Bank Pekao SA Private From October 2003 to January 2010. He then became Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Polish Institute of International Affairs ( Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych ) in Warsaw. Also appointed him Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who knows him from their time together in the Gdansk Solidarity and the KLD, at the head of the Economic Council ( Rada Gospodarcza ) the government.

Bielecki is married and has two children.