page_title: Edward Szczepanik
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Szczepanik / Biography / Early life
context_page_description: Edward Franciszek Szczepanik was a Polish economist and the last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile.
context_section_description: Edward lived in Kościuszko street, he went to the local grammar school and then studied at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). He studied for his MSc in political economy under Professor Edward Lipiński in 1936. During his compulsory military service he was stationed at the Artillery Officers' School with the 29th Light Artillery Regiment.  He won a scholarship to study at the London School of Economics, studying under Professors Lionel Robbins, Friedrich Hayek and Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan. On his return he became an assistant in Lipiński's department in SGH.  After the interruption of the War, he completed his education with an MSc in Economics from the LSE in 1953 and also a PhD in Economics in 1956.
caption: Kościuszko street, Suwałki.
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