MACIEJ KRZAK
MACIEJ KRZAK, 45, has been recently appointed chief economist for Bank Handlowy. This is a return to Poland for Krzak, who spent the previous three years in Vienna working for the National Bank of Austria and the Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies. Prior to that, he worked as a chief economist with ING Bank in Warsaw. Krzak holds two masters' degrees in economics, one from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), where he also earned his doctorate, and another from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. During the 1980s Krzak served as an assistant professor at the Institute of Economic Science in the Polish Academy of Science (PAN). He also wrote for the economic weekly Zycie Gospodarcze. Krzak is married and has one child. Apart from his native Polish he speaks fluent English and German as well as basic French and Russian. During his free time he said he enjoys skiing and listening to jazz. He also said he doesn't like to watch TV.
