Professor Konrad Raczkowski is Undersecretary of State in the Ministry ofFinance, Poland and a member of the National Development Council of the Presidentof the Republic of Poland. He is also currently Head of the EconomicInstitute of the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, where he is aProfessor of Economics and Management, and Chair of the Department ofEconomic Security Management. Professor Raczkowski specialises in themanagement of economic systems, public finance and the informal economy. Since2010 he has served as an expert and reviewer for the Parliamentary ResearchBureau of the Chancellery of the Parliament (Poland), various economicorganisations, enterprises and international institutions. From 2003 to 2013,he was an employee of the Ministry of Finance in Poland. He has previouslyworked with the European Commission's European Anti-Fraud Office in Brussels(2006-2010) and the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm.He is a Swedish government scholar in management (2009) and a member of theBritish Academy of Management.