Marek Belka

Marek Belka [ marɛk bɛlka ] ( born January 9, 1952 in Łódź) is head of the Central Bank of Poland, Professor of Economics from 2004 to 2005 and was Prime Minister of Poland.

Life

Marek Belka studied economics and sociology. He received his doctorate in 1978 with the theme " anti- inflation policy in developed capitalist countries," which brought him to study in the United States. In 1980 he became party secretary of economic faculty of the University of Łódź. In 1994, the now non-party Belka became a full professor. After Aleksander Kwasniewski became president, Belka joined the senior staff of the President.

In 2004, he became Prime Minister of Poland. Previously, he had been Polish Finance Minister twice and had made himself unpopular with his rigid austerity in public. As a longtime economic adviser Aleksander Kwasniewski he enjoyed his confidence - a benefit to the government work in the ruling Democratic Left Alliance (SLD ) did not have the parliamentary majority. On 14 May 2004, he lost a vote of confidence in the Polish Sejm with 188 to 262 votes. After this bitter defeat, he resigned from his position as Prime Minister back. President Kwasniewski, however, called him back into the office and he was eventually confirmed by the Parliament end of June 2004 with 236 to 215 votes. Since he is no future for the minority government led by him the SLD saw more in May 2005, he offered President Kwasniewski on 6 May 2005 to his resignation in order to bring about early elections for early summer. However Kwasniewski refused his resignation, he served until October 10, 2005.

On July 16, 2008, he received the University of Potsdam awarded an honorary doctorate. In January 2009, Belka was head of the European Department of the International Monetary Fund. To the head of the National Bank of Poland, as a successor to the late Sławomir Skrzypek, Belka was elected on 10 June 2010. In October 2013 he was inducted into the Galeria Chwały Polskiej Ekonomii.

Marek Belka speaks Polish fluently German, English and Russian.