Mateusz Morawiecki

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Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki (Polish) (Mat.umratavji) (listen); born 20 June 1968) is a Polish economist, scholar, and politician who has served as Poland's prime minister since 2017. He served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Beata Szydo from 2015 to 2017 and Minister of Finance from 2016 to 2018. Morawiecki had extensive experience before his political appointment.

Morawiecki, a boy from Wrocaw, became heavily involved in anti-Communist movements. He studied at the University of Wrocow and extended his studies at the University of Hamburg and University of Basel. He obtained degrees in arts, corporate administration, and graduate studies. Morawiecki taught at Wrocow University of Economics from 1996 to 1998, as well as at the Wrocaw University of Technology. Morawiecki served with Bank Zachodni WBK, where he was promoted to the position of managing director and then chairman from 1998.

Following prime minister Szydo's resignation, Morawiecki was nominated to replace her by the Law and Justice party's chief staff, which he joined in 2016.

Early life and education

Mateusz Morawiecki was born in Wrocow, Silesia, on June 20, 1968, to Kornel Morawiecki (physicist and Solidarity leader) and his wife Jadwiga. Morawiecki is of distant German descent. Morawiecki has said that his aunts were Jewish and that they were rescued by non-Jews during the Holocaust.

Morawiecki said in a press interview that he helped his father copying underground political literature at the age of 12, and that in August 1980 he plastered the streets of Wrocaw with posters calling for a general strike. He helped print and distribute underground Solidarity magazines after martial law was established in 1981. He was often arrested and threatened by the police as the son of a well-known opposition activist. He threw Molotov cocktails at police vehicles and was arrested and beaten by Poland's undercover police, according to Stwa, SB. Another reason for this was his growing familiarity with the Hippie movement as an early adolescent, during which he was arrested due to alleged marijuana possession. It was also the first time he met Ryszard Terlecki – a precursor of Poland's Hippie movement, and later one of his close coworkers. Morawiecki has said that his PiS colleague "knows absolutely what fighting for freedom entails."

He edited a criminal political newspaper Lower Silesia Bulletin in the 1980s and was active in the Independent Students' Union. He continued attending political marches until the late 1980s and was involved in occupation strikes at the University of Wroclaw in 1988 and 1989. He co-founded the Club for Political Thought "Free and Solidary."

Morawiecki, alumnus of the University of Wroc (history, 1992), Wrocaw University of Technology (1993), Wrocaw University of Economics (1995), and the University of Basel (European Studies, 1995–97). He studied abroad at Central Connecticut State University and completed a graduate certificate at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management while at the Wrocaw University of Technology.

Personal life

Morawiecki is married to Iwona Morawiecka, with four children; two daughters (Olga and Magdalena) and two sons (Jeremiasz and Ignacy).

Two of his aunts married Jewish men and converted to Judaism. A Righteous among the Nations saved one aunt during the Jewish Holocaust.

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Business career

Morawiecki joined Cooperative in 1991 and co-founded Reverentia and Enter Marketing-Publishing, which became two publishing companies. He co-founded Dni (Two Days) in the same year and later became editor-in-chief.

He completed an internship at Deutsche Bundesbank in 1995 with credit analysis, financial restructuring, banking control, and financial market surveillance. He conducted banking and macroeconomic studies at the University of Frankfurt in 1996-97. In 1998, he oversaw and participated in many areas, including finance, in the process of Polish accession to the European Union.

He co-authored the first book on The Law of the European Union with Frank Emmert, published in Poland.

Morawiecki taught at the Wroc'Aw University of Economics from 1996 to 1998, and then at the Wrocaw University of Technology. He served on several higher education commissions. He served on the boards of Wabrzych Power Company, Dialog (a local telephone-service provider), and the Industrial Development Agency from 1998 to 2001. He served in the Lower Silesian Regional Assembly from 1998 to 2002.

Morawiecki began his career as deputy chair of the supervisory board and the supervisor of the economic analysis bureau and the international trade department from November 1998. He became the company's chief executive and a member of the board in 2001. Morawiecki, chairman of Bank Zachodni WBK, served in 2007-2015.

Political career

President Andrzej Duda appointed Mateusz Morawiecki as both Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Beata Szydo on November 16, 2015. (This took place soon after Mateusz Morawiecki's father, Kornel Morawiecki, was elected to Poland's lower chamber of parliament, and the Law and Justice party won the 2015 parliamentary elections.)

Mateusz Morawiecki revealed in March 2016 that he had joined the Law and Justice party.

Morawiecki was appointed Minister of Finance on September 28, 2016, the second most influential member of the government, oversawing the budget, government finances, European Union funds, and overall economic policy.

Morawiecki, the Finance Minister, outlined an ambitious "Plan for Responsible Growth" aimed at spurring inflation and raising funds for many families with two or more children. In March 2017, he attended a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Baden-Baden, becoming Poland's first-ever representative at the summit.

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