| Office: | Minister for Foreign Economic Relations |
| Primeminister: | Tadeusz Mazowiecki |
| Term Start: | 1989 |
| Term End: | 1991 |
| Office1: | City mayor of Warsaw |
| Term Start1: | 3 November 1994 |
| Term End1: | 30 March 1999 |
| Birth Date: | 17 April 1947 |
| Birth Place: | Warsaw |
| Nationality: | Polish |
| Website: | Święcicki Blog |
Marcin Święcicki (born 17 April 1947) is a Polish politician and economist. He is a former deputy minister of economy, former minister for foreign economic relations as well as a former city mayor of Warsaw.
Święcicki was born in Warsaw on 17 April 1947.[1] He graduated from the University of Warsaw.[2] He attended George Washington University and Harvard University for postgraduate studies and received a PhD from George Washington University in economics.[1]
Święcicki was the secretary general of the Consultative Economic Council from 1982 to 1989.[2] He served as deputy minister of economy and then minister for foreign economic relations from 1989 to 1991 in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki.[1] [3] In 1989, he was also elected to the Parliament and served for two terms, from 1989 to 1991 and from 1993 to 1996. He was the mayor of Warsaw between 1994 and 1999.[4] Then he served as an advisor to the President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus on economic reforms from 1999 to 2000.[1] He was the director of economic and environmental affairs at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) between February 2002 and 2005 [5] [6] In 2011, he was again elected to the Parliament.[2]
He is the president of the support committee for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews[7] and president of European Movement Poland.[8]
Although Święcicki was not a member of the Solidarity group, like other members of the Mazowiecki cabinet, he was acceptable to the group and had Solidarity-aligned economic views.[9]
Święcicki is the author of several books which mostly focus on economics.[10]