Education

Jan Cienski is Poland correspondent for The Economist and editor of the Central European Financial Observer. He is also author of From Comrades to Capitalists: How Poland’s Entrepreneurs Built Europe’s Most Competitive Economy.

Until May 2014, he was the Warsaw bureau chief of the Financial Times. He has been in Warsaw since 2003, where he has covered Poland’s entry into the European Union, with its complicated political and economic consequences. Prior to that he spent five years as the Washington correspondent for the National Post, a Canadian newspaper. He also spent several years in the United States working for The Associated Press. From 1992 to 1995 he worked in Moscow for the German News Agency DPA, and was also a free-lancer in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He got his start as a reporter working in Warsaw for United Press International in 1989 and 1990.

He was born in South Africa in 1965 and later lived in Canada, where he received a degree in international relations from the University of Toronto.