Waldemar Pawlak

Waldemar Pawlak
Prime Minister of Poland
In office
26 October 1993 – 6 March 1995
PresidentLech Wałęsa
Deputy Aleksander Łuczak
Marek Borowski
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Preceded byHanna Suchocka
Succeeded byJózef Oleksy
Caretaker
5 June 1992 – 10 July 1992
PresidentLech Wałęsa
Preceded byJan Olszewski
Succeeded byHanna Suchocka
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
In office
16 November 2007 – 27 November 2012
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
Preceded byZyta Gilowska
Przemysław Gosiewski
Succeeded byJanusz Piechociński
Minister of Economy
In office
16 November 2007 – 27 November 2012
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
DeputyAdam Szejnfeld
Preceded byPiotr Woźniak
Succeeded byJanusz Piechociński
Leader of the Polish People's Party
In office
29 January 2005 – 17 November 2012
Preceded byJanusz Wojciechowski
Succeeded byJanusz Piechociński
In office
29 June 1991 – 11 October 1997
Preceded byRoman Bartoszcze
Succeeded byJarosław Kalinowski
Member of the Sejm
In office
18 June 1989 – 11 November 2015
Constituency16 – Płock
Personal details
Born (1959-09-05) 5 September 1959 (age 65)
Model, Poland
Political partyPolish People's Party
SpouseElżbieta Pawlak
ProfessionMechanician, farmer, teacher
AwardsOrder for Merits to Lithuania Order of Saint-Charles Royal Norwegian Order of Merit Order of Merit (Portugal)
Deputy Prime Minister W. Pawlak at the World Economic Forum on Europe and Central Asia in Istanbul 2008

Waldemar Pawlak [valˈdɛmar ˈpavlak] (born 5 September 1959) is a Polish politician. He has twice served as Prime Minister of Poland, briefly in 1992 and again from 1993 to 1995. From November 2007 to November 2012 he served as Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Economy. Pawlak remains Poland's youngest prime minister to date.

He is also a long-time commander of the Polish Volunteer fire department, holding the rank of Brigadier General. Since 2015 Pawlak is workstream leader for the AMU (Agency for the Modernisation of Ukraine), where he contributes his expertise in economy.[1]

  1. ^ "Finanznachrichten – Börse & Wirtschaft aktuell".