Zbigniew Hockuba,Ph.D.

Director, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development

Dr. Hockuba received his PhD from the Foreign Trade Department of the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (currently Warsaw School of Economics). He joined the faculty of economic sciences of the University of Warsaw in 1980, where he obtained his postdoctoral degree and became professor of economics in 1997. He has been teaching since. A visiting scholar at the universities of Heidelberg, Konstanz (Germany), Oxford (UK), and other. A member of various scientific associations and editorial board of Poland’s leading economic journals. He has published widely, both in professional journals and more popular media.

He was director of the Institute of Economic Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1995-2005). He cooperated with the Polish Academy of Sciences as the director of the programme of Macroeconomic Monitoring of the Polish Economy until 2007. He was a member of the Economic Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1999-2007) and a member of the Macroeconomic Council to the Minister of Finance (2004-2005). He sat on supervisory boards of various financial and industrial organizations.

He has been awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He is a winner of the Edward Lipinski prize and has been awarded a prize by the Minister of National Education for his postdoctoral thesis.

At the request of Slawomir S. Skrzypek, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Zbigniew Hockuba was appointed by Lech Kaczynski, the president of the Republic of Poland, to the post of NBP management board member on November 2, 2007. Prior to that, he was an advisor to the president of the NBP.