Professor Marek Belka is currently Visiting Professor in Practice at the Institute for Global Affairs of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Professor Belka was President of the Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland) between 2016-2010. He served as Prime Minister (2004-05) and also as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. Professor Belka is one of the lead academic and policy makers of Poland’s remarkable economic and political transformation following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. He is also one of the architects of Poland’s policies that have helped the country to successfully manage the fallout of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-9. 

Professor Belka has also held numerous prestigious senior positions within the international community. He chaired the World Bank- IMF Development Committee between November 2011 and October 2015 that assesses and advises policies of the major international financial institutions in developing and emerging economies.  He was Director of the IMF’s European Department between November 2008 and June 2010, leading the IMF’s crisis response and financial assistance in crisis-stricken Europe as well as Turkey and Russia. Professor Belka was Member of the Steering Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board between 2011-16. He also chaired the Vienna 2.0 Initiative’s  Steering Committee between 2013-2016, a private-public platform that manages financial stress and systemic risks in Emerging Europe. Professor Belka has published widely in the areas of macroeconomic policy, monetary theory, anti-inflation policy and financial stability.