Ryszard Waldemar Czerniawski (20 August 1952 – 31 August 2019)[1] was a Polish lawyer and economist. In 2000 he was awarded Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He died on 31 August 2019.[2][3]
He studied law at the University of Warsaw and international trade at SGH Warsaw School of Economics. He worked as a journalist from 1976 to 1990, first at the Polish Press Agency and then at the weekly Prawo i Życie (Law and Life).[4] In 2008, he received a doctorate in law from Lazarski University and in 2015 habilitation from University of Białystok.[5]
Between 1990 and 1991 he was head of the Legal Department within the Capital Markets Development Division at the Ministry of Privatisation; and from 1991 until 1994 a Director of the Legal Department at the Warsaw Stock Exchange,[4] eventually becoming Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 1994, where he worked until June 2006.
From 1994 until 2006, Czerniawski was a member of the Supervisory Board of the National Depository for Securities, and between 1998 and 2001 served as the board's Chairman. In the period 2001–2003, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Centrum Giełdowe S.A. and the company's subsidiary Infogiełda SA.[4]
He was the author of numerous publications on securities trading, including: