Michał Rutkowski (born October 20, 1959 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish economist and a World Bank Global Director for Social Protection, Labor and Jobs in Washington, DC. He was recently a Director for Multilateral Organizations (2015–16) and before he was World Bank Country Director for the Russian Federation and a Resident Representative in Moscow (2012–15). He is a former Director for human development (education, health and social protection) in the South Asia region of the World Bank. He is the highest-ranked Polish official at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC, and also a former Director of the Office for Social Security Reform in the Government of Poland (1996–97), as well as a co-author of the design of the new Polish pension system. A graduate of the Warsaw School of E