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Edward Franciszek Szczepanik (1915 - died 11 October 2005 in Worcestershire) was a Polish economist and the last Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile.

Edward Franciszek Szczepanik was born August 22, 1915 in Suwałki, a small town in northern Poland, then part of Imperial Russia under German occupation. He went to the local grammar school and studied at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). He studied for his MA in political economy under Professor Edward Lipiński in 1936. During his compulsory military service he was stationed at the Artillery Officers' School and was stationed with the 29th Light Artillery Regiment. He won a scholarship to study at the London School of Economics, studying under Professors Lionel Robbins, Friedrich Hayek and Rosenstein-Rodan. On his return he became an assistant in Lipiński's department in SGH.

During the September campaign he was captured by the Soviet forces and in 1940-1941 was a prisoner of the Soviet Gulag. Following the outbreak of the Russo-German War and signing of the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement he was released and joined the Polish II Corps under general Władysław Anders. After the war he remained in exile and worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization from 1963 to 1977. In 1986 he was chosen as a successor of Kazimierz Sabbat as the Prime Minister of the Polish exiled government. After Sabbat's death, his successor as the president of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski asked him to continue his mission. It ended after Poland regained her independence and the pre-war insignia of power were returned to Warsaw in 1990.

Szczepanik was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by SGH in 1995. He died 11 October, 2005 in Worcestershire and his remnants were buried in his home town of Suwałki.

Works

Author

• 1938 Zagadnienia neutralnego pieniądza. (Warsaw, 1938) SGH
• 1953 Zarys polityki dobrobytu gospodarczego. (London, 1953)
• 1954 A study in the economic problems of central & eastern Europe. Lectures. (London, 1954)
• 1956 The Cost of Living in Hong Kong. (Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong, 1956)
• 1958 The Economic Growth of Hong Kong (with special reference to the post-war industrialisation). (University of London / Oxford University Press: London, 1958) c.f. /Brittanica
• 1965 National accounting as a tool of economic planning. (Lectures). (Mouton & Co.: The Hague, 1965)
• 1976 Agricultural policies at different levels of development. (Rome, 1976)
• 1979 Kształtowanie się poglądów polskiego ruchu oporu na politykę gospodarczą. (London, 1979) SGH

Co-author

• 1955 MA, Ronald A., The National Income of Hong Kong, 1947-1950. (Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong, 1955)
• 1985 Duchêne, François, New limits on European agriculture : politics and the Common Agricultural Policy. (Totowa: Rowman & Allanheld / Croom Helm, London, 1985.) ISBN 0847673758 (U.S.) / ISBN 070990858X (u.K.) c.f. Duchêne

Editor

• 1960 The Economic Role of Middlemen and Co-operatives in Indo-Pacific Fisheries. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1960)
• 1962 Economic and social problems of the Far East : Symposium : Golden jubilee congress : Papers and discussions. (Hong Kong University Press, 1962)
• 1985 Napaść sowiecka i okupacja polskich ziem wschodnich, wrzesień 1939 : praca zbiorowa pod auspicjami. (Polskiego Towarzystwa Naukowego na Obczyźnie, Polska Fundacja Kulturalna, London, 1985) ISBN 0850651654 / (Warsaw : Mie̢dzyzakładowa Struktura "Solidarności" V, 1985)
• 1986 Kongres Kultury Polskiej Ojczyzna w sercach : pokłosie kongresowe : prace Kongresu Kultury Polskiej : tom 1 (Polskie Towarzystwo Naukowe na Obczyżnie, London, 1986) ISBN 187002706X
• 2003 The Polish Cultural And Scientific Heritage at the Dawn of the Third Millennium (Polish Society of Arts and Sciences Abroad, 240 King Street, London, W6 ORF, 2003)

Notes and references

• Daily Telegraph Obituary, 17/10/2005
• The Times Obituary, October 19, 2005
• Prime Ministers of Poland ]
• Polish websites of Suwalki grammar school Karol Brzostowski (later renamed after Maria Konopnicka )
• Polish websites of SGH (Szkoła Główna Handlowa) ; Lipiński's department in SGH ; SGH Doctorate ; SGH Honoris causa

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