Michał Rutkowski

Who is Michał Rutkowski?

Michał Rutkowski is a Polish economist and a World Bank country director for the Russian Federation and a resident representative in Moscow. He is a former director for human development in the South Asia region of the World Bank. He is the highest-ranked Polish official at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC, and also a former director of the Office for Social Security Reform in the Government of Poland, as well as a co-author of the design of the new Polish pension system. A graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics, with post-graduate studies at the London School of Economics and Harvard Business School. Before joining the World Bank in 1990 Rutkowski was an assistant professor at the Warsaw School of Economics and did research work in the area of labor economics, macroeconomics, education, business development and productivity in the Centre for Labour Economics and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. As a member of the secretariat of the Consultative Economic Council to the Polish government he also advised on early issues of economic and social transition to a market economy in Poland. He was also involved in interdisciplinary development endeavors as a member of the Polish Association for the Club of Rome and the British Association for the Club of Rome.