Marek Belka

His Excellency Marek Belka MEP
Prime Minister of Poland
In office 2 May 2004 – 31 October 2005
President	Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Deputy	Jerzy Hausner Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka
Preceded by	Leszek Miller
Succeeded by	Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
President of the National Bank of Poland
In office 11 June 2010 – 20 June 2016
Appointed by	Bronisław Komorowski
Preceded by	Piotr Wiesiołek (Acting)
Succeeded by	Adam Glapiński
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 2019 – 15 July 2024
Constituency	Łódź
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
In office 19 October 2001 – 6 July 2002
Prime Minister	Leszek Miller
In office 4 February 1997 – 17 October 1997
Prime Minister	Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Minister of Finance
In office 19 October 2001 – 6 July 2002
Prime Minister	Leszek Miller
Preceded by	Halina Wasilewska-Trenker
Succeeded by	Grzegorz Kołodko
In office 4 February 1997 – 17 October 1997
Prime Minister	Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Preceded by	Grzegorz Kołodko
Succeeded by	Leszek Balcerowicz
Personal details
Born	Marek Marian Belka (1952-01-09) 9 January 1952 (age 72) Łódź, Poland
Political party	Polish United Workers' Party (1973–1990) Democratic Left Alliance (1999–2005) Independent (1990–1999, 2005–present)
Other political affiliations	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (Since 2019) The Left (Since 2019)
Spouse	Krystyna Belka
Children	2
Education	University of Łódź
Awards

Marek Marian Belka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarɛk ˈbɛlka] ^ⓘ; born 9 January 1952 in Lódź) is a Polish professor of economics and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Poland and Finance Minister of Poland in two governments.^[1] He is a former director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) European Department and former Head of Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland).^[2] He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019.

In 1978–1979 and 1985–1986 he did scientific internships at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, and in 1990 - London School of Economics. From 1986, he was associated with the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He published over 100 scientific papers devoted mainly to money theory and anti-inflation policy in developing countries. He specializes in applied economics and contemporary economic thought. He is also a member of the Committee of Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

He held a number of important public functions in the country and abroad. In 1990 he became an advisor and consultant at the Ministry of Finance, followed by the Ministry of Ownership Transformations and the Central Planning Office. In the years 1994–1996 he was the vice-chairman of the Council of Socio-Economic Strategy at the Council of Ministers, and then economic advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski. In 1996 he became a consultant at World Bank. He was twice the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland and the Minister of Finance: in 1997 in the Cabinet of Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz and in 2001–2002 in the Cabinet of Leszek Miller. In 2004–2005 he served as Prime Minister and the chairman of the Committee for European Integration. In 2005 he held the office of the Minister of Sport in his own government .

From 2006 he served as the executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and from November 2008 the director of the European Department International Monetary Fund. Previously, he was also the head of the coalition Council for International Coordination in Iraq (2003), and then the director of economic policy in the Provisional Coalition Authority in Iraq, where he answered, among others for currency reform, creation of a new banking system and supervision of the economy (2003-2004).

He was appointed president of the National Bank of Poland. He took office on 11 June 2010 and ended his term on 21 June 2016. In January 2011, he was elected for a three-year term (extended for another three years in 2014) to Steering Committee European Systemic Risk Board. Belka ran for and was elected an MEP at the 2019 European Parliament election. He has been appointed the vice-president of the S&D Group.^[3]