Krzysztof Obłój

Between November 2012 and 5 August 2015 he was an advisor to the President of Poland.

In the United States his books “Management Systems” (1993) and “Winning: Continuous Improvement Theory in High Performance Organizations” (1995) have been published. Obłój acts as consultant and supervisory board member (partly as chairman) in Polish companies or local subsidiaries of corporations like Asea Brown Boveri, LG Group, Reckitt Benckiser, Alior Bank SA, Prochem SA, Agora SA, Ambra SA, Eurobank S.A., Impel SA, NFI Foksal SA, PGF SA, PKN Orlen SA, Polmos Lublin SA or PZU SA.

Krzysztof Obłój (born October 30, 1954) is a Polish economist and university teacher, with a broad research area including world economy, institutional environment of business, competition and entrepreneurship. He specializes in organization culture, structure and process, internal organizational analysis and organizational strategy. Obłój is Chair of the Institute for Strategic Management and International Management (Zakład Zarządzania Strategicznego i Międzynarodowego) at the University of Warsaw and Head of the Department of Business Strategy at the Kozminski University in Warsaw.

The economist is son of Józef Obłój (1918–2012), a chemist. He is a graduate of Szkoła Planowania i Statystyki in Warsaw. He worked as research assistant at the Warsaw University; since 1977 as teaching assistant/assistant professor. 1987 he gained his habilitation in strategic management. Since 1995 he is professor at Kozminski University. From 1995 until 2009 he was Director at Warsaw University and 1993/1994 he served as President of the European International Business Association.