MARIAN CZAKANSKI
By : (M.W.)
MARIAN CZAKANSKI, 53, recently became president of Bank Slaski. Prior to this appointment, Czakanski had held various managerial positions in banking, including deputy president of the management board of Bank Pekao; president of the management board of the PTE Nationale-Nederlanden Polska Pension Fund; and president and supervisory board member at Powszechny Bank Gospodarczy in Lodz. Czakanski, who has a doctorate in economics from what is now from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), studied under Nobel prize-winner P. A. Samuelson during a one-year Ford Foundation scholarship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. He has also been a professor of marketing at a university in Blacksburg, Virginia; adviser to the deputy prime minister; director of the Office for International Economic Cooperation; and the commercial counselor at the Polish embassy in Ottawa, Canada. He has a wife, Halina and a daughter, Beata, who works at Deutsche Bank Polska.
