Zyta Gilowska

From 1972 to 1985, Gilowska was a research assistant at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University^[3] and later at the same institute, become an associate professor from 1995 to 1999.^[3] In 2001, she became full professor at the Catholic University of Lublin.^[3] From 1994 to 1996, she was a member of the liberal party, Freedom Union (Unia Wolności).^[3] She was the former vice chairman of the Civic Platform (Polish: Platforma Obywatelska) party; however, she left the party on 21 May 2005^[3] in protest over accusations by party colleagues of wrongdoing. From 2001 to 2005, she was a Sejm (the lower chamber of the Polish Parliament) deputy.

From 7 January to 23 June 2006, she was the deputy prime minister and finance minister in the Law and Justice government under Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz.^[2] She was dismissed due to allegations about her communist-era collaboration.^[4][5] Paweł Wojciechowski replaced her as finance minister.^[4]

From 22 September 2006 to 16 November 2007, she again was deputy prime minister and finance minister.^[6] In October 2006, Gilowska was made the head of Poland's financial supervisory authority and the European Investment Bank governor of Poland.^[3]

She resigned from parliament in 2008 due to health issues, and largely withdrew from political activity.^[7] Between February 2010 and October 2013, she was a member of the Monetary Policy Council, and in October 2015, President Andrzej Duda appointed her to the National Development Council.

She was married to Andrzej Gilowski, with whom she had a son, Paweł. A lifetime heavy smoker, she battled heart failure since her youth, dying of the disease on 5 April 2016, aged 66, in Świdnik.^[8][9]