In the spotlight: Ludwik Sobolewski

While Rozłucki re-created the Polish capital market and saw it transform itself from empty rooms and leased computers to the largest bourse in Central and Eastern Europe, Sobolewski will have to decide where the WSE should go next. The new president is known to be a proponent of the bourse's privatization, although he doesn't see it as a burning issue and is not in favor of merging with other European stock exchanges. Upon being chosen as the new president in May he stated that he wants to increase the Polish capital market's position in the CEE region.

Sobolewski is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and did his PhD at the Universite Pantheon-Assas (Paris II). From 1994 until 2006 he was the vice president of the National Depository for Securities. He is currently the head of the supervisory board of that body. He also worked as an expert for Senate and Sejm commissions and worked with the Bureau of the Government Commissioner for Pension Reform. He is the author of a number of books and publications on capital-market and commercial law.