Lucjan Orlowski
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Lucjan T. Orlowski is Professor of Economics and Finance and Founding Director of Doctor of Business Administration in Finance program at Sacred Heart University. Prior to joining SHU, Professor Orlowski taught at New York University and before that at the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland.
His research areas include monetary economics, financial markets and institutions, and financial stability. He has authored numerous books, chapters in edited volumes and articles in scholarly journals. He has collaborated with many prominent international institutions and universities in the US, Europe and Asia and advised governments and financial institutions. He served as a Member of the Macroeconomic Policy Council of Poland’s Ministry of Finance and as a Senior Adviser to the National Bank of Poland. He was a member of the U.S. Government Mission to Eastern Europe.
Prof. Orlowski has been actively involved with the European Union's eastern enlargement, particularly the design of monetary and financial integration strategies. He was instrumental in the implementation of the inflation targeting strategy in Poland and helped develop the analytical framework for macroeconomic analysis and inflation forecasting models. He has worked with the European Commission’s Economic and Finance Committee on the post-crisis policy responses to extreme risks in financial markets. He collaborates with Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group on analyzing volatility of financial futures.
He has been a member of the Executive Board of Association for Comparative Economic Studies, the Advisory Council of Center for Economic and Social Research in Warsaw, and the Advisory Board of the DRI-WEFA Group in Washington, D.C.
He serves on editorial boards of: Economic Systems, Comparative Economic Studies and Banks and Bank Systems. He is an Associate Editor of Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, a Regional Editor of Journal of Emerging Markets and a Guest Editor of Open Economies Review and Economic Systems.
He is a recipient of 2014 Doctor Honoris Causa from Wrocław University of Economics.
Degrees & Certifications
- PhD in International Economics, Katowice University of Economics, Poland
- Masters in Economics, Katowice University of Economics
Research Interests & Grants
Professor Orlowski's research interests concentrate on financial markets risk in relation to macroeconomic and financial stability. His recent research focuses on modeling and assessing extreme financial risks. He is a recipient of three grants from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group Foundation for research on volatility of financial futures and its impact on real economy.
Awards & Fellowships
- Associate Fellow, Saybrook College, Yale University (2009-present)
- Senior Fellow and Member of Advisory Council, Center for Economic and Social Research, Warsaw, Poland (1992-present)
- Jack Welch College of Business Research Award (2003, 2014, 2018)
- Faculty Scholarship Award, Sacred Heart University (2017)
- Faculty Research Award, Sacred Heart University (1994, 2002, 2017)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Wrocław University of Economics (2014)
- Visiting Professor, Universita di Roma III, Rome, Italy ( 2010, 2011)
- Research Fellow, the William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan (2005-2011)
- First Foreign Visiting Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of Finance (2009)
- Fellow, European Commission DG ECFIN (2009)
- Research Professor, the German Institute for Economic Research - DIW Berlin (2004-2007)
- Senior Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn, Germany (2000- 2004)
- Teaching Excellence Award, Sacred Heart University (2007)
- Outstanding Academic Title Award for “Transition and Growth in Post-Communist Countries: The Ten-Year Experience”, E. Elgar Publishing Inc; Choice Magazine (2002).
- Visiting Professor, University of Warsaw (1997)
- Research Fellow, Foreign Trade Research Institute, Warsaw (1994)
- Advisor and Research Fellow, Institute for East-West Studies, New York and Prague (1993-1994)
- Visiting Research Fellow, Kiel Institute Of World Economics (1992-1993)
- American Council on Education Fellowship (1990-1991)
- Exxon Award for Academic Excellence and University Service (1984)
- Fulbright Fellow, New York University (1981-1983)
- Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (1979)
- Invited Member of the U.S. Government Mission to Eastern Europe led by then U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd and Connecticut Governor William O'Neill (May 1990).