In 1991 he served as the Minister for Construction and Spatial Planning in the government of Jan Krzysztof Bielecki.

He was elected to the first term of the Sejm from the list of the Center Civic Alliance and a Centre Agreement candidate.

[3] In 1997 with the support of the Movement for Reconstruction of Poland he was elected as a member of the Senate for the Tarnów Voivodeship.

He soon left the Movement for Reconstruction of Poland to join the Christian National Union and the Solidarity Electoral Action senate club.

He was later named as the chairman of the supervisory board by the Export Development Bank – MBank (in 1992), Centralwings (in 2007) and then KGHM Polish Copper (in 2007).

On 16 February 2010 the president announced his decision to appoint him to the Monetary Policy Council for a six-year term.

[8] On 10 June 2016 the eighth term of the Sejm confirmed him as the new president of the National Bank of Poland.