Krzysztof Porwit

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Krzysztof Hugon Porwit (born 9 July 1922 in Warsaw, died 24 August 2013) is a Polish economist, participant in the Warsaw Uprising.

He was born in the family of Colonel Marian Porwit and his wife Zofia of Niesiołowski. He fought during the September campaign and then worked in the conspiracy. After the founding of the Home Army he entered the ranks with the nickname "Krzyś", was posted to the Headquarters of the Home Army, to the Division VI BiP (Information and Propaganda Bureau), and was also a member of the Secret Service Military Secretariat. After the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising he fought in the northern part of Śródmieście, and after surrender he laid down his gun and entered the transit camp in Ozarow Mazowiecki. He was transported to Stalag X B in Sandbostel in northern Germany and then to Stalag XVIII-C in Markt Pongau. At the end of the war he was evacuated to London, where he stayed until the end of 1946, began his studies at the University of London but stopped and returned to Poland. He studied at the School of General Planning and Statistics and then worked at the Central Planning Office and the State Economic Planning Commission. In the late 1950s he became a researcher at the Department of Economic Research of the Planning Commission, which was present at the Council of Ministers and later at the Planning Institute. From 1972 until his retirement in 1999, he was a research fellow at the School of Planning and Statistics (now the School of Economics), initially conducting research on the problems of election in the socialist economy, and then on the issues of reforming it. After 1989, he focused his attention on the processes of systemic and system transformation. In the years 1990-1994 he headed the Department of Economic Policy of the Warsaw School of Economics.

As an Honorary Member, he was a member of the Econometric Fellow of the Sociological Association, and also belonged to the Polish Economic Association and the Program Council of the "Ekonomista" magazine. He was a member of the Council for Social and Economic Strategy at the Council of Ministers. Bibliography

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