PM Szydło appoints new president of GUS

Prime Minister Beata Szydło has appointed Dominik Rozkrut as the new president of the Central Statistical Office of Poland (GUS), the agency informed in a statement on Wednesday. Dr Dominik Rozkrut will replace Halina Dmochowska, who had been officiated as the temporary president after Janusz Witkowski retired on April 1, 2016. Dominik Rozkrut is a Doctor of Economics, specializing, among others, in economics, econometrics, capital markets, economic policy and economic research. Since 2007, he has been a director in the Statistical Office in Szczecin. GUS is Poland's chief government executive agency, charged with collecting and publishing statistics at both national and local levels. The president of GUS reports directly to the Prime Minister of Poland and is considered the equivalent of a Polish government minister.