PIASA BOARD APPOINTS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
At its December meeting, the Board of Directors of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America, appointed Dr. Bozena Leven, Executive Director of the New York based Institute for a three year term effective June 30, 2011.
Dr. Leven, is Professor of Economics, at the School of Business of the College of New Jersey in Ewing, N.J. She will succeed Dr. Thaddeus V. Gromada, Professor Emeritus of European History at New Jersey City University, who will be retiring at the end of June 2011. Dr. Gromada has held this position since 1991 and earlier served as PIASA's Secretary General.
Dr. Bozena Leven received her Master's degree in Economics with a specialty in International Trade, from the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw Poland and her Ph.D. degree from Cornell University. Her primary areas of study included International Economics and Economic Development. She interspersed her academic duties with consulting stints at the Ford Foundation's International Affairs Division assisting in its Soviet-East European program, the United Nations Office of the Under-Secretary General (Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis), the William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan and the World Bank. Her publications and research focus on two areas: financial restructuring of Eastern and Central Europe and the welfare effects of marketization reforms in that region.
A member of PIASA, Dr. Leven is also a member of other scholarly organizations e.g. Association for Comparative Economic Studies, Association for Evolutionary Economics, and Eastern Economic Association. She has served on the Scholarship committee of the Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union and is contributor to "Nasza Gazeta" a publication of the Polish Cultural Foundation of New Jersey.
PIASA is a national not-for-profit tax exempt academic organization founded in 1942. It maintains a center of learning and culture devoted to the advancement of knowledge about Poland and Polish Americas in the U.S. Its national headquarters is a five story townhouse on 208 East 30th St., New York, N.Y 10016 in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan.
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