Tadeusz Truskolaski (born 10 April 1958, in Stare Kapice, Białystok County,

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) is an

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and

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. A member of the

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''(Platforma Obywatelska)'' party, he has been the president (mayor) of the Polish city of Białystok since 5 December 2006, succeeding Ryszard Tur of the

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. Since 2011 he is a member of the European Alliance Group at the

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Academic career

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. After graduation he began work as a university teacher. In 1996 he earned a doctorate in economic sciences at the Bialystok campus of the

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. His Ph.D. thesis was ''Transport planning as a factor in the development of cities in Northeastern Poland''. On 3 April 2007 he was habilitated at the University of Bialystok after defending a second dissertation entitled ''Transport and dynamics of economic growth in the Southeastern

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''. He is an author of about 70 papers on economics.

Politics

He was employed by ''Rządowe Centrum Studiów Strategicznych'' (Government Centre for Strategic Studies) where he worked on the

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of Poland. He directed the Department of Regional Politics in ''Urzad Marszalkowski'' (Marshal's Office) of Podlaskie Voivodeship, where he obtained 52 million euros from the

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's PHARE program to help ease Poland's accession to the EU. He is an advisor to the Minister of Regional Development.
Prezydent miasta, zastępcy
'' ("Białystok City Mayor, Deputy"). Retrieved 2009-07-16. In 2006 he ran for mayor of the city of Bialystok as a candidate of the

party. In the first round of the elections he received 49% of the votes (42,889 votes altogether). In the later runoff he defeated his rival Marek Kozlowski from the Law and Justice ''(Prawo i Sprawiedliwość)'' party, receiving 67% of the votes cast (53,018 votes). He was sworn in as mayor on 5 December 2006.

Esperanto activities

In August 2007 Truskolaski delivered a speech at the 92nd World Congress of Esperanto in

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. In his speech he urged attendees to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the originator of Esperanto by attending the 2009 World Congress in Ludwik Zemenhof's home town of Białystok.Białystok Municipal Office
Retrieved 2009-07-26. The mayor cited Białystok as "a place which is the melting pot of different nations, religions, cultures, customs and traditions" and "an example of the integration of ethnic and religious groups, a meeting place for Poles, Belarusians, Jews, Lithuanians, Germans, Russians and Tartars." This multi-ethnicity, he said, was one reason for Zamenhof to develop the universal language of Esperanto. That 94th World Congress of Esperanto duly began the last weekend of July at the

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, with about 2,000 participants, including French architect Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof,
Święto Esperanto w Białymstoku
' ("Feast of Esperanto in Białystok"). Retrieved 2009-07-27. a grandson of Esperanto's founder and a strong proponent of the Esperanto movement. The attendees were again greeted in the Esperanto language by Mayor Truskolaski and the Deputy Mayor Alexander Sosna, who had served as chair of the World Congress organizing committee. Aside from Polish, Truskolaski also speaks both

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and

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. He has a wife Ewa, a daughter Emilia and a son Krzysztof.

Selected publications

* ''Podstawy finansów przedsiębiorstw'' ("Basics of finance") Białystok Univ. Press, 2002. * ''Transport a dynamika wzrostu gospodarczego w południowo-wschodnich krajach bałtyckich'' ("Transport and dynamics of economic growth in the southeastern Baltic") Białystok Univ. Press, 2006.

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