Member of the CASE Supervisory Council

Expertise:
• Municipal, Asset Management and Economics
• Land Strategy, Urban and Real Estate Development
• Corporate Finance and Real Estate Economics
• Urban and municipal development
• Property taxation
• Housing finance

Present interests: territorial (re)development in transition economies, local land management policies and strategies based on markets and infrastructure investments, local government asset management and property taxation, brownfield redevelopment, long term leasing of public land, and developing a notion of real estate as environmental commodity.

Background:

Current positions:
• President of the CREI Foundation Council
• Vice-Chairman of the National Real Estate Council
• Member of the Advisory Board of the International Property Tax Institute
• Adjunct Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow
• Plenipotentiary for Asset Management at the Jagiellonian University
• Consultant on Strategic Asset Management for Credit Enhancement Program in Wroclaw and Cracow

Previous Positions:
• Senior advisor to the founder of Polish reforms, Deputy Premier - Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz in the initial years of 1989-1991 and again during 1998-2000.
• Organized and led the World Bank Housing Finance project in Poland (1990).
• Initiated CREI Foundation (1992) to help promote orderly development of land, real estate, and housing markets, as well as help guide territorial (re)development towards more compactness and less sprawl based on land use and participatory efficiency assuring and yet sustainable settlements.
• Deputy mayor of Cracow during 1993-94, overseeing matters of development strategy, local finance, housing and land assets management.
• Involved in initiation of Cracow Development Forum - an NGO for local leaders to exchange views and experience in order to support partnership approach towards city development.
• Consultant for the Center for Financial Engineering in Development (USA) on ad valorem property tax reform project in Russian Federation (January 1995-October 1996).
• Faculty associate of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (USA) in  the area of ad valorem property tax reforms in Eastern Europe (from May 1994 to present).
• Member of the World Bank Urban Advisory Board (from May 1999) - represents views and experience of transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
• Faculty associate of the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (Taiwan).

Education:
PhD (1988) Real Estate Economics - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
MA (1976-78) Urban Land Economics - University of British Columbia, Canada
MA (1975 - 1976) Urban environment - University of Stockholm, Sweden
BA (1971 - 1974) Economics - University of Western Ontario, Canada

Languages: English (fluent), Swedish (fluent), Polish (fluent), Russian (intermediate) and Spanish (intermediate)