Ryszard Czerniawski

Ryszard Waldemar Czerniawski (20 August 1952 – 31 August 2019) was a Polish lawyer and economist. He worked as a journalist from 1976 to 1990 for the first at the Polish Press Agency and then at the weekly "Prawo i Życie" ("Law and Life").
Between 1990 and 1991, he was head of the Legal Department within the Capital Markets Development Division at the Ministry of Privatisation; and from 1991 until 1994 a Director of the Legal Department at the Warsaw Stock Exchange, eventually becoming vice-chairman of the Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 1994, where he worked until June 2006.
Czerniawski was born in Warsaw. He died on 31 August 2019 at the age of 67. His death was announced on 2 September.