Polish economist and politician, long-time deputy minister (1986–1990), head of the internal market department in the government of Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (1991), as well as a long-time academic teacher, specialist in the fields of economic and financial analysis, logistics and accounting. He is the promoter of over 200 master's and bachelor's theses and eight doctoral theses, as well as the author of many publications in the field of economics. From the beginning of his scientific career, he was associated with PWE, where he published e.g. books: Analiza gospodarki materiałowej w przedsiębiorstwie przemysłowym (Analysis of material management in an industrial enterprise, first edition 1965, five editions) and Logistyka w przedsiębiorstwie (Logistics in an enterprise, together with Zdzisław Sarjusz-Wolski, first edition 1995, five editions). He published his first scientific article in 1962 in the PWE monthly "Gospodarka Materiałowa".