Ryszard Czerniawski (born 1952) is a Polish
lawyer and
economist. Czerniawski was educated at the
Warsaw School of Economics and the
University of Warsaw. He worked as a journalist from 1976 to 1990, first at the
Polish Press Agency and then at the weekly
Prawo i Zycie (
Law and Life). In 2008, he received a Doctor of Laws degree. 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.