Grzegorz Kołodko

Grzegorz Witold Kołodko (pronounced [ˈɡʐɛɡɔʂ kɔˈwɔtkɔ]; born 28 January 1949) is a distinguished professor of economics and a key architect of Polish economic reforms. He is the author of New Pragmatism, an original and heterodox theory of economics. He has been a university lecturer, researcher, and author of numerous academic books and research papers. As Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance of Poland from 2002 to 2003, he played a leading role in Poland's entry into the European Union. During his earlier term from 1994 to 1997, Kołodko led Poland into the OECD.

He is the founder and director of TIGER – Transformation, Integration, and Globalization Economic Research at Kozminski University in Warsaw. He has served as a consultant to international organizations such as the IMF, World Bank, UN, and the OECD. Kołodko is a member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, Academia Europaea, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China in Beijing, a Professor at Huangzhou University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, and a distinguished professor at the Emerging Markets Institute, Beijing Normal University, Beijing.