Alicja Kornasiewicz

Alicja Kornasiewicz (born March 19, 1951 in Kańczuga) is a Polish economist, manager and politician. She was a member of Polish parliament and served as Secretary of State and Vice Minister at the Ministry of State Treasury in Poland. Actually she is Managing Director of the Warsaw Office of Morgan Stanley.

Kornasiewicz studied at Szkoła Główna Planowania i Statystyki. She received a PhD degree from Poznań University of Economics. 1978 she passed exams as Statutory auditor; she is a member of the National Chamber of Statutory Auditors in Poland. She is a graduate too of the Advanced Management Programme at the Harvard Business School and of Executive and Advanced Management Programmes at INSEAD.

At the first free elections after the democratic transition in Poland, Kornasiewicz became a member of parliament from 1989 to 1991, representing the Polish People's Party (election district of Płock). In the government of Jerzy Buzek she served as Secretary of State in the Polish Ministry of the Treasury from 1997 to 2000.

Prior to that she worked for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as a senior banker in London. Kornasiewicz was head of emerging European countries investment banking at Unicredit Group and a member of the Executive Committee at the bank’s Markets & Investment Banking Division. From 2010 she was CEO of Polish Bank Pekao SA.

In January 2012 Kornasiewicz joined Morgan Stanley as a Senior Adviser in investment banking covering Poland and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Actually she is Managing Director of the Warsaw Office of the firm. Kornasiewicz is a jury member at Galeria Chwały Polskiej Ekonomii.