Waldemar Pawlak

Brigadier General Waldemar Pawlak
Prime Minister of Poland
In office 26 October 1993 – 6 March 1995
President	Lech Wałęsa
Deputy	Aleksander Łuczak Marek Borowski Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Preceded by	Hanna Suchocka
Succeeded by	Józef Oleksy
Caretaker 5 June 1992 – 10 July 1992
President	Lech Wałęsa
Preceded by	Jan Olszewski
Succeeded by	Hanna Suchocka
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
In office 16 November 2007 – 27 November 2012
Prime Minister	Donald Tusk
Preceded by	Zyta Gilowska Przemysław Gosiewski
Succeeded by	Janusz Piechociński
Minister of Economy
In office 16 November 2007 – 27 November 2012
Prime Minister	Donald Tusk
Deputy	Adam Szejnfeld
Preceded by	Piotr Woźniak
Succeeded by	Janusz Piechociński
Leader of the Polish People's Party
In office 29 January 2005 – 17 November 2012
Preceded by	Janusz Wojciechowski
Succeeded by	Janusz Piechociński
In office 29 June 1991 – 11 October 1997
Preceded by	Roman Bartoszcze
Succeeded by	Jarosław Kalinowski
Member of the Sejm
In office 18 June 1989 – 11 November 2015
Constituency	16 – Płock
Personal details
Born	(1959-09-05) 5 September 1959 (age 64) Model, Poland
Political party	Polish People's Party
Spouse	Elżbieta Pawlak
Profession	Mechanician, farmer, teacher
Awards

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Waldemar Pawlak [valˈdɛmar ˈpavlak] ^ⓘ (born 5 September 1959) is a Polish politician. He has twice served as Prime Minister of Poland, briefly in 1992 and again from 1993 to 1995. From November 2007 to November 2012 he served as Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Economy. Pawlak remains Poland's youngest prime minister to date.

He is also a long-time commander of the Polish Volunteer fire department, holding the rank of Brigadier General. Since 2015 Pawlak is workstream leader for the AMU (Agency for the Modernisation of Ukraine), where he contributes his expertise in economy.^[1]