Graduate: History Department, Wroclaw University; Business Administration, Wroclaw Polytechnic; Central Connecticut State University, USA; Hamburg University; Basel University; Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA. MBA, Academy of Economics, Wroclaw. Former: Deputy to the Lower Silesia Regional Council; Deputy Director, Accession Negotiation Department, Office for European Integration; member of the Polish accession negotiation team in the finance area; with Western Bank (Bank Zachodni); from 2007, Managing Director, Western Bank Group (WBK). Since November 2015, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development. Co-Author of handbook on EU law and economics of economic integration. Former Member of the Management Board, Industry Development Agency and Energy Company, Walbrzych. Honorary Consul of Ireland. Recipient: Cross of Freedom and Solidarity (2013); Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland's Revival, 2015).