We are sad to announce that Stanislaw Wellisz, a Member of the CASE Advisory Council and the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Relations at Columbia University, passed away on February 28, 2016 at the age of 90 after long illness.
Stanislaw was born in Warsaw, Poland on March 28, 1925. His family fled Poland in 1939 after the Nazi invasion and eventually settled in New York City where he spent most of his remaining life.
He graduated from Harvard University, where he also earned a PhD (1954) after spending two years in the U.K. as a …read more