Mirosław Szreder is a professor of economics who specializes in development and applications of quantitative methods, especially statistics, in social and economic problems. He was educated at the University of Gdansk, where he serves now as the Dean of the Faculty of Management. He is also a member of editorial boards and editorial committees of several journals, including “Statistics in Transition”, and “Marketing i Rynek”. He is the editor of the book East European Enterprises in the Process of Transformation to a Market Economy,  Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Commack, New York 1998, and  another one, published in Polish, Metody i techniki sondażowych badań opinii, PWE, Warszawa 2004 i 2010.