BIO

Founder of the Center for Leadership, professor at SGH, visiting scholar at Harvard, Berkeley, Melbourne, Glasgow, and other universities.

He studied at Harvard University, where, among other things, he completed the Master Class for Leadership Educators. He is also a graduate of management and leadership programs at IESE Business School and HEC Paris.

In 2011, he was awarded a Letter of Achievement for his contributions to leadership development by the Harvard Kennedy School Government, where he was also a member of the teaching team of the flagship leadership course for senior managers in the public and private sectors.

In Poland, he lectures, trains and consults on macroeconomics and monetary integration and leadership for private organizations, mainly global corporations.

Involved in public activities, in the past as, among others: Author of both major reports on the adoption of the euro in Poland, Director and Professor of the Institute of Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Founder and Director of the Office for Integration with the Eurozone of the National Bank of Poland, Member of the Macroeconomic Council to the Minister of Finance, Advisor to the Minister of Finance and the President of the National Bank of Poland, Chief Economic Advisor to WestLB Bank Poland, Expert of the European Commission. He was the only Pole to work at three central banks in the world: the European Central Bank, the National Bank of Austria and the NBP. He has worked for international organizations, such as the Vienna Institute for Comparative Research.

Prof. Wojcik is the author or co-author of numerous scientific articles and nine books published in the US, UK, Germany, Austria, Estonia and Hungary. His works have been published and quoted in renowned foreign dailies, The Guardian, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit, Handelsblatt. He regularly publishes in domestic dailies, including “Rzeczpospolita” and “Gazeta Wyborcza.”

In a survey for the period 2001-2006, he was ranked as the 1st most cited Polish economist in scientific journals worldwide. The SSRN database – the world’s largest electronic repository of scientific papers in the social sciences – ranks him in the top 5% of scientists in the world.

In December 2009, in a ranking by Gazeta Wyborcza, he was selected as one of the top six candidates for the new Monetary Policy Council. Also in 2009 – before turning 35 – was named one of the youngest professors of economics in Poland.

In 2011, included by the President’s Office in the list of “Generation 45 minus” – a list of young Poles who are shaping the future of their disciplines, from sports to art to science and business.

Winner of both of the most important awards given to economists in Poland. In 2008. – Bank Handlowy award for special contribution to the development of economics and finance. In 2009. – Award of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

Recipient of numerous awards, including: two-time Fulbright scholar, winner of a scholarship from “Polityka” Weekly, the Foundation for Polish Science, the Minister of Science and Higher Education and many others.

He is fluent in Polish, English and German, and communicates in Spanish and Russian. He has two children, a wife and is a happy man.