Draft:Krzysztof Piech

Krzysztof Piech (born October 14, 1975) is a Polish economist, professor at Lazarski University, and a Polish expert in financial crises and blockchain technology.

Academia
He graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics (Quantitative Methods and Information Systems, 1998), where he earned a PhD in economics in 2002 for a dissertation on crises and countercyclical policy, as well as a habilitation in economics in 2016 for a series of books on knowledge economy and innovation measurement. From 1999 to 2016 he worked there at the Economic Policy Department.

He was a visiting scholar at the University College London (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 2002-2003) and the National University of Singapore (LKY School of Public Policy, 2012).

Since 2016 he has held a professorship at Lazarski University, where he lectures mainly on finance and blockchain. He is a Director of the Blockchain Technology Centre there. Since 2016, he is also an associate of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies.

Public sector
In 2006 he established the Knowledge and Innovation Institute, a private-held non-profit entity specialising in knowledge economy and innovation research and publications.

He participated in evaluations of public policy programmes (including the Innovative Economy Operational Program 2007-13) for the Polish Agency for Entrepreneurship Development, the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry for Regional Development, the Ministry of Science, and regional authorities.

He has also evaluated research and business plans for the Polish Agency for Entrepreneurship Development, the National Centre for Research and Development, venture capital funds and the StartSmart CEE acceleration program. He was a director of the Polish Blockchain Technology Accelerator.

In 2007 he was the main author of the Women’s Party program, and in 2015 was an expert of the ‘Modern’ (Nowoczesna) party and of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy (Komitet Obrony Demokracji).

In 2016-2018 he served as a principal advisor to the Polish government (Ministry for Digital Affairs) on matters of blockchain policy.

Private sector
From 2005 to 2014 he was one of the main authors of the Polish insurance market forecasts working for Allianz Poland, the Institute for Market Economy Research, the Polish Insurance Enterprise, Polish Chamber of Insurance.

He was an expert on information economy for the CASE-Advisors, Ecorys Polska and an expert on macroeconomic modelling for the Institute for Structural Research.

Since 2020 is an expert at the Warsaw Enterprise Institute, publishing their annual reports on the Polish economy and its catching-up processes.

He was an advisor to a few startups, a mentor of startups at Academic Business Incubators, lecturer for startups in Poland and Ukraine. He has led a few research projects, including the iVoting project (online voting using blockchain and TOR networks). Former CEO of InvestOn, a family investment office based in London. Involved in a few fintech startups on digital bonds, blockchain-based banks and settlement systems (with Mike Kennedy, fo. CEO of Goldman Sachs Poland).

Economic research
He has developed a version of the Hermin model, estimating the macroeconomic impact of the EU funds on the Polish economy.

The thesis of his PhD dissertation was the inevitability of the forthcoming world recession at the beginning of the 2000s and its influence on Poland.

He predicted the financial crisis of 2008 with articles published over a year before the fall of the Lehman Brothers, showing its possible impact on the Polish economy. In 2019 he warned of the risk of the growth of inflation in Poland. Since the beginning of the pandemic, he published a series of articles on anticrisis policy.

He has authored a few books on innovation and economic policy, co-edited about 30 scientific books on economics, and financial crises and authored over 100 scientific articles and book chapters.

Publications

 * MEASUREMENT SCIENCE REVIEW.
 * Mechanistic Aspects of the Oxidative and Reductive Fragmentation of N-Nitrosoamines.
 * Carbocations Generated under Stable Conditions by Ionization of Matrix-Isolated Radicals: The Allyl and Benzyl Cations.
 * Vibronic spectra of the p-benzoquinone radical anion and cation: a matrix isolation and computational study.
 * Anthralin:  Primary Products of Its Redox Reactions.
 * PHYSICAL EXERCISES FOR PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH HOMEWORK AND PARENTS MOBILIZATION AROUND THESE TASKS.
 * TRADITIONAL GAMES AND PLAYS FROM SOUTHERN PODLASIE AS AN ELEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE.
 * Economic Policy and Growth of Central and East European Countries.
 * Knowledge economy and the long-term growth – are there any relations?
 * The influence of covid-19 pandemic on the recreational and sports behavior patterns of physically active people
 * The Bisketene Radical Cation and Its Formation by Oxidative Ring-Opening of Cyclobutenedione.
 * FAMILY INFLUENCE ON SPORT ACTIVITY PATTERNS DURING EARLY ADOLESCENCE – A COMPARATIVE APPROACH.
 * ROLE OF PRESCHOOLERS IN MOTIVATION FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THEIR FAMILIES.
 * Economic Policy and Growth of Central and East European Countries.
 * Secure Biometric Verification Station Based on Iris Recognition.
 * Zagadnienia aktualnie poruszane przez młodych naukowców 18.
 * The meaning of decentralised finance (DeFi).
 * Oxidative Rearrangements of Tricyclic Vinylcyclobutane Derivatives.
 * Technologie, edukacja i innowacje w teoriach wzrostu gospodarczego.