Jan Krzysztof Bielecki AUD (born May 3, 1951) is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 centre politician. He served as Prime Minister of Poland for most of 1991. He is a member of Civic Platform

Civic Platform

Civic Platform , abbreviated to PO, is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Poland. It has been the major coalition partner in Poland's government since the 2007 general election, with party leader Donald Tusk as Prime Minister of Poland and Bronisław Komorowski as President...

. Chairman of the Council of the Polish Institute of International Affairs.
Since 1980 Bielecki was an advisor to Solidarność on economic policy

Economic policy

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. In 1990 he joined the Liberal-Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny, KLD) which became part of the Freedom Union

Freedom Union (Poland)

The Freedom Union was a liberal democratic party in Poland. It was founded on March 20, 1994 out of the merger of the Democratic Union and the Liberal Democratic Congress . Both of these parties had roots in the Solidarity trade union movement. It represented European democratic and liberal...

 (Unia Wolności, UW) in 1994. In 2001 Bielecki joined the newly founded Civic Platform

Civic Platform

Civic Platform , abbreviated to PO, is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Poland. It has been the major coalition partner in Poland's government since the 2007 general election, with party leader Donald Tusk as Prime Minister of Poland and Bronisław Komorowski as President...

 (Platforma Obywatelska, PO).
After being Prime Minister in 1991 he served as Minister for European Integration

European integration

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in the cabinet of Hanna Suchocka

Hanna Suchocka

Hanna Suchocka is a Polish political figure. She served as the prime minister of Poland between 11 July 1992 and 26 October 1993 under the presidency of Lech Wałęsa. She is the first woman to hold this post in Poland and 19th in the world.Suchocka is a specialist in Constitutional Law...

 from 1992 to 1993. From 1993 to 2003 Bielecki represented Poland at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

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. Afterward he joined Bank Pekao S.A. (Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spółka Akcyjna, Pekao). On November 25, 2009, it was reported that Bielecki resigned from his position as the CEO of Pekao. The press and some politicians subsequently speculated that this might be because of his plans to replace Donald Tusk

Donald Tusk

Donald Franciszek Tusk is a Polish politician who has been Prime Minister of Poland since 2007. He was a co-founder and is chairman of the Civic Platform party....

as Prime Minister, to run for presidency or other political role.