Zyta Gilowska

Zyta Gilowska [ˈzɨta gʲiˈlɔfska] ( listen) (born 7 July 1949 in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie) is a Polish economist and politician. From 7 January until 23 June 2006 she was Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Finance Minister in the Law and Justice government under Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and then Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

Gilowska is a former vice-chairman of the Citizens Platform (Polish: Platforma Obywatelska) party; however, she left the party on 21 May 2005 in protest over accusations by party colleagues of wrongdoing. A former deputy to Sejm (the lower chamber of the Polish Parliament) from 2001 to 2005, she was previously in the liberal party Freedom Union (Unia Wolności).

Gilowska graduated with a degree in economics from Warsaw University and was later an economics professor at the Catholic University of Lublin.

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Preceded by
Stanisław Kluza
Minister of Finance
2006–2007
Succeeded by
Jacek Rostowski