Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
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Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz | |
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Mayor of Warsaw | |
In office 2 December 2006 – 22 November 2018 | |
Preceded by | Lech Kaczyński Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Rafał Trzaskowski |
President of the National Bank of Poland | |
In office 5 March 1992 – 10 January 2001 | |
Preceded by | Andrzej Topiński (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Leszek Balcerowicz |
Personal details | |
Born | Hanna Gronkiewicz 4 November 1952 Warsaw, Poland |
Political party | Civic Platform |
Spouse | Andrzej Waltz |
Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
Awards | |
Hanna Beata Gronkiewicz-Waltz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈxanna bɛˈata ɡrɔnˈkʲɛvid͡ʐ ˈvalt͡s] ⓘ,[1] born 4 November 1952) is a Polish politician and lawyer, Professor of Jurisprudence and politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw between 2006 and 2018. She is the first and so far only woman to have held this position.
Life and career
Between 1992 and 2000, she was the chairman of the National Bank of Poland, the central bank of Poland. She resigned to take the position of the deputy chairman of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a position she held between 2001 and 2004.
Gronkiewicz-Waltz was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005 after receiving 137,280 votes in the 19th Warsaw district, running on the Civic Platform list.
In the
In January 2007, just a few weeks into her term, Gronkiewicz-Waltz was at the center of a controversy that could have cost her the office. A law enacted in 2005 obliged the mayors of Polish municipalities to publicly disclose their own as well as their spouse's financial circumstances. The law requires the successful candidate's disclosure statement to be provided within 30 days after the inauguration, whereas the statement regarding the candidate's spouse is to be submitted within 30 days after the actual election. Gronkiewicz-Waltz submitted her own and her husband's statements on 2 January 2007, exactly 30 days after her inauguration. On 20 January, the newspaper
Regarding the
In the November 2010 municipal elections, Gronkiewicz-Waltz was re-elected as the mayor (or "president") of Warsaw, winning 53.67% of the votes outright in the first round, making a second round unnecessary.
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz was along with Monika Olejnik, an influential journalist, a murder target of Brunon Kwiecień,[2] who was arrested in November 2012 in connection with the preparation of a terrorist attack on Sejm.[3]
Gronkiewicz-Waltz is a Fellow of Collegium Invisibile as a professor of economics.[4]
Selected awards
- Silver Cross of Merit (1990, Poland)
- Officer of the Legion of Honour (France, 2008)[5]
- Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland, 2010)[6]
- Order of the Polar Star (Sweden, 2011)[7]
- Order of the Crown (Belgium, 2011)[8]
See also
References
- ^ Gronkiewicz in isolation: [ɡrɔnˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ].
- ^ "Terror po polsku. Brunon Kwiecień - kryptonim "Doktor"". wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
- wyborcza.pl. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2012.)
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(help - ^ "List of Fellows". ci.edu.pl. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
- ^ "Gronkiewicz-Waltz odebrała Legię Honorową". Retrieved 3 November 2018.
- ^ "M.P. 2010 nr 98 poz. 1144". Retrieved 3 November 2018.
- ^ "Szwedzki order dla Prezydent Warszawy". Retrieved 3 November 2018.
- ^ "Król Belgii odznaczył prezydent Warszawy. Za co?". Retrieved 3 November 2018.
External links
- Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz – parliamentary page – includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.
- Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz – the official page