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Stanislaw H. Wellisz
International Affairs Building, Room 1012
K&SC Davis Professor of Economics and International Affairs Economics Department
Phone: 212-854-8033
sw11@columbia.edu
Biography:
Stanislaw Wellisz is the K&SC Davis Professor of Economics and International Affairs.
His books include The Economies of the Soviet Bloc (McGraw-Hill 1964) which has been translated into Japanese, Spanish and French; The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Five Small Open Economies, with Ronald Findlay (Oxford 1993); and Stabilization and Structural Adjustment in Poland, which he edited with Henryk Kierzkowski and Marek Okolski (Routledge 1993).
Wellisz is a leading economic development adviser to governments worldwide. For more than thirty years, he has advised governments on economic development projects, most recently as an adviser to the Polish Ministry of Finance on transforming the former Communist economy. He has been the chief economist of a Ford Foundation advisory team to the Calcutta Metropolitan Planning Organization (1962–63), a member of the Harvard Development Advisory Service team in Pakistan in 1964 and Liberia in 1965, and a member of World Bank missions to Iran in 1968, Yugoslavia in 1969, Algeria in 1972, Jordan in 1972, and Zaire in 1974.
He has served as a consultant to the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, the Algerian Ministry of Planning, the Moroccan Ministry of Planning, the Greater Istanbul Master Plan Bureau, the African Bureau of the Agency for International Development, the Parliamentary Commission on Fiscal Reform of Venezuela, and to the governments of Mauritius and Jamaica. He was a member of planning teams sent by Louis Berger International to the Yemen Arab Republic and to the Syrian Arab Republic. He also headed the Center for Development Technology Inc. in 1982–86. As a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, he designed a new tariff structure for Nepal and Togo. Since 1989, he has served as a consultant on Polish affairs to the IMF Research Department, and has headed the Study Group on the Polish Economy, an AID-financed team of Western economists of Polish origin.
Wellisz earned a BA, an MA, and a PhD at Harvard. He joined the Columbia faculty as a professor in 1964 after teaching at Williams College and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.