Paweł Wojciechowski

Paweł Wojciechowski (born 1960) is a Polish economist and specialist in the field of computer sciences. From June 24 2006 to July 10 2006 he was the Polish Minister of Finance.

Paweł Wojciechowski was born January 3, 1960. He graduated from the Foreign Trade Faculty of the Main School of Planning and Statistics in 1983. Receiving a scholarship of John Carroll University, Wojciechowski graduated from that university with the grade of Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1986. The following year he started working for Davies Can Company in Solon, Ohio and also became a teacher of economics and statistics at his alma mater. He also received the BA in operations research from Case Western Reserve University (1988). He then became one of the analysts at Center for Regional Economic Issues in Cleveland, where he studied macroeconomy and technical analysis of the American stock exchange system.

In 1992 he returned to Poland, where he became the director of UN-sponsored "Programme for Development of Market Investment". He also became an advisor to the Ministry of Privatisation during the terms of Tomasz Gruszecki, Wiesław Kaczmarek and Jerzy Hausner. In 1994 he received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Systemic Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Between 1994 and 1996 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Lublin-based Bank Depozytowo-Kredytowy and then a director of the Equity Finds Division of the Polski Bank Rozwoju. In the later period he was also working at various posts for the Polska Grupa Zarządzania Funduszami, Kleinwort Benson company and Towarzystwo Funduszy Inwestycyjnych PBK Atut. In 1999 he completed his post-graduate studies on controlling.

Between July of 1999 and July of 2005 he was the managing director of PTE Allianz Polska, a Polish branch of the international Allianz group. During his term the fund was often criticised for becoming the least profitable of all similar funds in Poland. In March of 2006 Wojciechowski returned to active politics and became an advisor to Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz. SImultaneously he was the deputy chairman of Police chemical factory. On June 23 he was named the successor of Zyta Gilowskawhere he succeeded as the Minister of Finance Zyta Gilowska who had to resign following accusations of collaboration with the Communist secret services in late 1980s. He was made to resign by the new Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński on July 10 and succeeded by Stanisław Kluza.

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