Stanislaw Bereza grew up in the Penley Hospital Community and is the son of Col.Dr.Michal Bereza. He studied at the London School of Economics and then worked as an economist and risk manager at Barclays Bank. In 1989 he participated in the UK government training for the post-communist government of Poland. This was followed by a secondment to the Polish Ministry of Finance to work as an adviser to the Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz and later as the inspector of Banks at the Central Bank of Poland. After working for the World Bank on development projects in Latvia, Estonia and other countries, he joined the Banking Supervision Dept of the Bank of England. He held senior appointments at the Bank and The Financial Srvices Authority and fro 2008 -2011 he was the Inspector of Banks at the Central Bank of the Bahamas.
In 1992 he wrote Zarzadzanie Ryzykiem Bankowym (Bank Risk Managment) - the first publlication of the newly formed Polish Institute of Bankers.
