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Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz born 1952
Image:Hannawaltz.jpg
Function:	President of Warsaw
Party:	Platforma Obywatelska

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (born November 04, 1952 in Warsaw) is a Polish politician and since December 22006 the President of Warsaw. She is the first woman to ever hold this position.

Between 1992 and 2000 she was the Chairman of the National Bank of Poland, the central bank of Poland. Resigned to take a position of the Deputy Chairman of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a position she held between 2001 and 2004. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 137280 votes in 19 Warsaw district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list.

In the municipal elections of 2006 Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz was Platforma's nominee for the position of mayor (president) of Warsaw. On November 12 she gained 34,23% and was second, just after candidate of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, former Prime Minister of Poland, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz. As neither received 50 percent of the vote, a second round was held on 26 November, when Gronkiewicz-Waltz received 53,18% of the votes.

[edit] See also

• Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2009

[edit] External links

• Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz - parliamentary page - includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.
• Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz - the official page

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