Aleksander Surdej


Aleksander Surdej is a Polish economist and scientist who serves as an permanent representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development since 19 August 2016. His research interests focus on the methodology of policy analysis, labour market policies and policies of social regulations.

Life

Aleksander Surdej has graduated from international economics at the Kraków University of Economics as well as sociology at the Jagiellonian University. He completed an International Studies program at Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Ph.D. program at the European University Institute in Florence and a research fellow there, was twice a fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar, World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki and Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar. He defended his Ph.D. in 1995 at Jagiellonian University and acquired post-doctoral degree in 2006.
Since 2007 he worked as a professor of economics at the Kraków University of Economics as the head of the Department of European Studies.
He is an author and editor of 14 books and more than 70 articles related to international economics published in Polish and international scientific journals.
Aleksander Surdej was collaborating with the Wim Kok group in the 2002 analysis of the consequences of EU enlargement, the World Bank and the Polish government. He has coordinated and participated in more than dozen international research projects. He has been also cooperating with Adam Smith Centre.
He speaks English, French, Italian and Russian.
Aleksander Surdej is married to Irena Surdej with four children.

Works