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Ryszard Jerzy Petru (b. July 6, 1972 [1 ] in Wroclaw [2]) - Polish economist, chairman of the Association of Polish Economists

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Biography [edit | edit code] Born in Wrocław, where he graduated from the V High School of gen. James Jasinski [3] [4]. He studied at the Faculty of Computer Science and Management of the Wroclaw University of Technology [4]. He was a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics [5]. During his studies he became an assistant of the democratic Union MP Władysław Frasyniuk [4]. On the recommendation of his teachers, Leszek Balcerowicz, he began working in the foundation CASE [4]. Since 1995 was his assistant, and in 1997-2000, when Leszek Balcerowicz served as deputy prime minister and minister of finance, he served as his adviser [2], working as a consultant in the office of the Government Plenipotentiary for the pension system reform. In 1998 he started working as a tutor at the Warsaw School of Economics [4]. He was a member of the Freedom Union at that time, being one of their candidates in the parliamentary election in 2001, earning 4646 votes in the Warsaw suburbs [6] [7]. In 2001-2004 he worked as an economist for the Polish and Hungarian affairs at the World Bank [4], dealing with the reform of public finances, regional policy and investment climate [8]. Then until 2008 he held the position of the chief economist at the Bank BPH, and then worked as the director for the bank's strategy and chief economist at the BRE Bank [2], [8] and the PKO BP [5]. In 2011-2014, he was a partner at PwC, responsible for the Polish private companies [9]. Since May 13, 2011 he has been the Chairman of the Association of Polish Economists [10]. He cooperated with, founded by Leszek Balcerowicz, the Civil Development Forum, being a speaker at their meetings and seminars [11]. In 2013, he was an expert and speaker - along with Fr. Kazimierz Sowa and Fr. Maciej Zięba – in the religia.tv show of ‘the morality and ethics in time of crisis’[12]. In the same year he became an economic advisor for the Lower Silesian Voivodship Marshal [9]. In 2014 he was shortly the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Polish Railways (PKP S.A.) [13] [14]. In the same year he became the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Solaris Bus & Coach enterprise [15]. He has been an author of publications on economics, including a book of ‘The end of the free market? The origins of the crisis’ (2014), written with a journalist Łukasz Lipiński [16]. He worked as an expert and co-author with Grzegorz Kasdepke on his two children's books explaining the ins and outs of economics [17] [18] (both published by the National Centre of Culture). In May 2015, he has created ‘the Modern PL’ (NowoczesnaPL) foundation in Rzeszów [19], and then the association with the same name [20], declaring forming a political movement around them [21] [22]. Among the persons involved in this process, there are Wadim Tyszkiewicz [23] [24] (town of Nowa Sól Mayor) and Paweł Rabiej [25].

Private life [ edit | edit code ] Since 1997 married to Margaret, having two daughters, Catherine and Magda [ 4].