The membership in Galeria Chwały Polskiej Ekonomii is an outstanding award for Polish economists.

Idea

In 2005 the Polish edition of Germanys leading business magazine Manager Magazin (a subsidiary of Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...

-group) established Galeria Chwały Polskiej Ekonomii (translated: Hall of Fame of the Polish economy), which is similar to a business and economic hall of fame, established by Manager Magazin in Germany in 1970. Since 2010 the business magazine Strategie

Strategie (magazine)

The monthly title Strategie - Pismo Dyrektorów Finansowych is Polands only magazine for corporate financial managers. With a printrun of 10 200 the business-to-business-title is distributed via controlled circulation.- Editorial partners :...

endows the award. By becoming a member in Galeria Chwały once a year an outstanding Polish economist is awarded for lifetime achievements for the Polish economy.

Partners and jury

Galeria Chwały is supported by three major Polish institutions: the Polish Employers Association Lewiatan, the Warsaw University of Technology Business School

Warsaw University of Technology

The Warsaw University of Technology is one of the leading institutes of technology in Poland, and one of the largest in Central Europe. It employs 2,453 teaching faculty, with 357 professors . The student body numbers 36,156 , mostly full-time. There are 17 faculties covering almost all fields of...

 and the Warsaw School of Economics

Warsaw School of Economics

Warsaw School of Economics is the oldest economic university in Poland.The Warsaw School of Economics was founded in 1906 as a private school under the name August Zieliński Private Trade Courses for Men. On 30 July 1919 it became a separate legal entity and was granted the status of an...

.

The jury is composed of leading representatives of the consortium:

• Adam Budnikowski, rector of the Warsaw School of Economics
• Dorota Goliszewska, publisher of the monthly Strategie
• Henryk Orfinger, President of the supervisory board of the The Polish Employers Association Lewiatan
• Witold Orłowski, rektor of the Warsaw University of Technology Business School

Sculptures and artist

The heads of the Galeria Chwały-members are in a scale 1:1.2 as bronze-sculptures produced. The production process is based on plasticine

Plasticine

Plasticine, a brand of modelling clay, is a putty-like modelling material made from calcium salts, petroleum jelly and aliphatic acids. The name is a registered trademark of Flair Leisure Products plc...

-form technic. The heads are presented to the public in a permanent exhibition.

The sculptor is Jerzy Nowakowski, an artist living in Poznan

Poznan

Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

. He was born in 1963 in Bydgoszcz and studied at the Poznan Academy of Fine Arts under Prof Józef Kopczyński (1930-2006).

Since 1993 Nowakowski's work has been presented at single and group exhibitions in Poland and Germany. He is author of ordered by cities (Oborniki

Oborniki County

Oborniki County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Oborniki, which...

, Wolsztyn

Wolsztyn

Wolsztyn is a town in western Poland, on the western edge of Greater Poland Voivodeship...

, Grodzisk Wielkopolski

Grodzisk Wielkopolski

Grodzisk Wielkopolski is a town in western Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship , with a population of 13,703 . It is south-west of Poznań, the voivodeship capital. It is the seat of Grodzisk Wielkopolski County, and also of the smaller administrative district called Gmina Grodzisk Wielkopolski...

, Nowy Tomyśl

Nowy Tomysl

Nowy Tomyśl is a town in western Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship. It is the capital of Nowy Tomyśl County. The population is 15,627 ....

, sculpture of Fryderyk Chopin and others) and institutions (for example The International Book Fair in Warsaw) art pieces (scultures, award symbols, memory plates, ..)

Exhibition

The sculptures, fixed on metal columns, are exhibited permanently on the second floor of the Warsaw University of Technology Business School in the capital's centre located on Koszykowa street.

Laureates

Members of Galeria Chwały so far are:

• Leszek Balcerowicz
  Leszek Balcerowicz
  Leszek Balcerowicz is a Polish economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland and Deputy Prime Minister in Tadeusz Mazowiecki's government...
  
  , a former Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Polish National Bank (award winner 2006)
• Henryka Bochniarz, candidate for Polish presidency in 2005 and president of the Polish Employers Association Lewiatan (award winner 2008)
• Władysław Grabski (1874-1938), Polish politician (prime minister) and economist (award winner 2005, posthum)
• Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski
  Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski
  Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski was a Polish politician and economist, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, government minister and manager of the Second Polish Republic....
  
   (1888–1974), Polish politician and economist (award winner 2005, posthum)
• Wiesław Rozłucki (*1947), president of the Warsaw Stock Exchange 1991 - 2006 (award winner 2007)

External links

• Website of Warsaw University of Technology Business School
• Marekjerzynowakowski.com.pl, The artists' official website