Stanislaw Henryk Wellisz

Economist, educator, consultant

Born Mar. 3, 1925, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1941; son of Leopold and Jadwiga (Landau); married Ewa (Lazar); children: Tadeusz, Krzysztof.

Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), 1947, Master of Arts (M.A.) (magna cum laude), 1949, Ph.D., 1954, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA).

Career: instructor, Williams College, 1955-57; assistant prof., 1957-60. associate prof., 1961-64, prof., 1964, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago (IL); prof., 1964 -, chairman, 1977-82, Department of Economics, Columbia University, New York City; visiting prof., Central School of Planning and Statistics, Warsaw, 1959-60, Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), 1983, University of Warsaw, 1990-91; lecturer, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. State Department, 1965-70, Bogazici University, Istanbul (Turkey), 1975-76; economic consultant to numerous organizations and countries; advisor to Polish Ministry of Finance, member, Economic Council, and National Privatization Committee (Poland), 1990-91; prof. University of Warsaw, 1992 -.

Author: Economies of the Soviet Bloc, 1964; co-author, The Political Economy of Small Open Economies, Stabilization and Structural Adjustment in Poland, 1993; over 40 articles in professional journals.

Member of: American Economic Society.

Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; Fulbright fellowship, Cambridge University (United Kingdom), 1950-52; grants, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1978, 1982.

Affiliation: Democrat. Protestant.

Languages: Polish, English, French, Italian.

Hobbies: travel, archeology, history of art.

Office: Columbia University, Department of Economics, New York, NY 10027.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.