Professor Balcerowicz -- doctor honoris causa of the UNSW

The Chancellor Mr David Gonski AC, the Vice-Chancellor Professor Frederick Hilmer AO and Professor David Dixon, Dean, Faculty of Law, have great pleasure in inviting you to the:

Conferring of an Honorary Degree on
Professor Leszek Balcerowicz
followed by a public lecture by Professor Balcerowicz on
'Institutional Change After Communism'

The lecture will also mark the launch of the UNSW Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law.


Professor Leszek Balcerowicz is Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics, the former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and former President of the National Bank of Poland.

Professor Leszek Balcerowicz is the architect of Poland's postcommunist economic reforms. He has been at the centre of Poland's economic and political life since the fall of communism in Poland in 1989.

In 1989, as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the first non-communist government in Poland after World War II, Leszek Balcerowicz designed and executed the radical stabilization and transformation of the Polish economy. He retained his positions in the government until December 1991. In 1995 he served a second term as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and President of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers.

Following his term as Deputy Prime Minister, he was appointed to the post of President of the National Bank of Poland in 2001. He is currently Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics, a Distinguished Associate of the International Atlantic Economic Society, and member of the Group of Trustees, Institute of International Finance.

Professor Balcerowicz is the author of more than 100 publications on economic issues in Poland and abroad and has received numerous awards including Poland's highest decoration -- Order of the White Eagle -- for his contribution to systemic transformation. In 1998 he was named 'Finance Minister of the Year' by the British financial monthly 'Euromoney', and also received the Central European Award for Central Eastern European Finance Minister of the Year. The following year he received the 'Transatlantic Leadership Award' for the most outstanding European personality of the year from the European Institute of Washington. In 2004 he was recognised as Central Banker of the Year for Europe by the British monthly 'The Banker', and was granted the annual 'Emerging Markets Award' in the same year for the Best President of a Central Bank in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2006 he was voted by FT.com readers as one of five Leaders of Pioneering Thought.

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