Andrzej Marian Olechowski AUD (born 9 September 1947 in Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

) is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 politician. He was one of the co-founders of conservative liberal

Conservative liberalism

Conservative liberalism is a variant of liberalism, combining liberal values and policies with conservative stances, or, more simply, representing the right-wing of the liberal movement....

 party Civic Platform

Civic Platform

Civic Platform , abbreviated to PO, is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Poland. It has been the major coalition partner in Poland's government since the 2007 general election, with party leader Donald Tusk as Prime Minister of Poland and Bronisław Komorowski as President...

 in 2001 with Maciej Płażyński and Donald Tusk

Donald Tusk

Donald Franciszek Tusk is a Polish politician who has been Prime Minister of Poland since 2007. He was a co-founder and is chairman of the Civic Platform party....

. He served as Minister of Finanse (1992) in the Jan Olszewski

Jan Olszewski

Jan Ferdynand Olszewski is a Polish lawyer and political figure. He is best known for serving as Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland from 1991 to 1992....

's Government and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-1995) in the Waldemar Pawlak

Waldemar Pawlak

Waldemar Pawlak is a Polish politician. He twice served as Prime Minister of Poland, briefly in 1992 and again from 1993 to 1995. Since November 2007, he has been Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy. Pawlak is the only person who held the office of Prime Minister twice during the...

's Government

Olechowski was an independent candidate in 2000 presidential election

Polish presidential election, 2000

The 2000 Polish presidential election took place in Poland on 8 October 2000. Incumbent President Aleksander Kwaśniewski was easily re-elected in the first round after winning more than 50% of the votes.-Background:...

, coming second after incumbent Aleksander Kwaśniewski

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Aleksander Kwaśniewski is a Polish politician who served as the President of Poland from 1995 to 2005. He was born in Białogard, and during communist rule he was active in the Socialist Union of Polish Students and was the Minister for Sport in the communist government in the 1980s...

. In 2002, he was Civic Platform's candidate for president of Warsaw but failed to even get to the second round. Afterwards he began moving away from politics.

He left the Civic Platform in July 2009 and started co-operating with the Democratic Party

Democratic Party (Poland)

The Democratic Party is a Polish centrist party. The party faced a revival in 2009, when it was joined by liberal politician Paweł Piskorski, formerly member of Civic Platform.-History:The party was established on April 15, 1939...

. He was one of the candidates in the 2010 Polish presidential election, but got only 1.44% of votes and didn't get into the second round.

• Director of Euronet, USA.
• 2005 functions
  • Supervisory Boards of Citibank Handlowy and Europejski Fundusz Hipoteczny;
  • Senior Advisor, Central Europe Trust Polska;
  • Director, Studiam Generale Europa;
  • Chairman, Citizens for the Republic.
  • President of The Central European Forum
• Activities
  • former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-95)of the Republic of Poland
  • former Minister of Finance (1992) of the Republic of Poland.
  • Chairman of the City Council in Wilanow (1994-98);
  • Economic Advisor to President Walesa (1992-93; 1995);
  • Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations (1991-92);
  • Deputy Governor, National Bank of Poland (1989-91);
  • Director of Department, Ministry of Foreign Economics Relations (1988-89) and National Bank of Poland (1987-88);
  • Economist, The World Bank, Washington, D.C. (1985-87);
  • Economic Affairs Officer, UNCTAD, Geneva (1982-84);
  • Department Head, Foreign Trade Research Institute (1978-82).
• Education
  • Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (PhD, 1979)
  • Attended the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
    Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
    The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies is a highly selective postgraduate educational and research institute situated in Geneva, Switzerland...
    
    , Geneva

• Trilateral Commission
  Trilateral Commission
  The Trilateral Commission is a non-governmental, non-partisan discussion group founded by David Rockefeller in July 1973 to foster closer cooperation among the United States, Europe and Japan.-History:...
  
   member.
• Bilderberg Group
  Bilderberg Group
  The Bilderberg Group, Bilderberg conference, or Bilderberg Club is an annual, unofficial, invitation-only conference of approximately 120 to 140 guests from North America and Western Europe, most of whom are people of influence. About one-third are from government and politics, and two-thirds from...
  
   member.
• Fellow of Collegium Invisibile
  Collegium Invisibile
  Collegium Invisibile is an academic society in Poland, founded in 1995, that affiliates outstanding Polish students with distinguished scholars in accordance with the idea of liberal education...
  
  .

External links

• http://www.olechowski.pl/