Mrs. Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz President of Warsaw City

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (born November 4, 1952 in Warsaw) is a Polish liberal-conservative politician and since December 2, 2006 the President of Warsaw. She is the first woman to ever hold this position.

Between 1992 and 2000 she was the Chairman of the National Bank of Poland, the central bank of Poland. Resigned to take a position of the Deputy Chairman of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a position she held between 2001 and 2004. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 137,280 votes in the 19th Warsaw district, running on the Platforma Obywatelska list.

In the municipal elections of 2006 Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz was Platforma's nominee for the position of mayor (president) of Warsaw. On November 12 she gained 34.23% and came in second, just after the candidate of Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc, former Prime Minister of Poland Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz. As neither received 50 percent of the vote, a second round was held on 26 November, when Gronkiewicz-Waltz received 53.18% of the votes.