Danuta Hübner

Danuta Hübner


European Commissioner for Regional Policy
In office 22 November 2004 – 4 July 2009
President	José Manuel Barroso
Preceded by	Jacques Barrot
Succeeded by	Paweł Samecki
European Commissioner for Trade
In office 1 May 2004 – 22 November 2004 Served with Pascal Lamy
President	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Pascal Lamy
Succeeded by	Peter Mandelson
Personal details
Born	(1948-04-08) 8 April 1948 Nisko, Poland
Political party	Civic Platform
Alma mater	Warsaw School of Economics

Danuta Hübner (Polish: [daˈnuta ˈxʲybnɛr] or [ˈxʲibnɛr]; born 8 April 1948) is a Polish economist, academic, and policy maker. She served as European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 22 November 2004 until 4 July 2009, when she resigned to become a Member of European Parliament for the Civic Platform.^[1] In 2012, Professor Hübner became a member of the International Honorary Council^[2] of the European Academy of Diplomacy.

Education

She received her MSc in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics (Central School of Planning and Statistics) in 1971, her PhD in economics, Warsaw School of Economics 1974 Visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Sussex in 1974, and her post-doctoral degree in international trade relations, Warsaw School of Economics in 1980. She was a 1988–1990 Fulbright scholar, University of California, Berkeley and received an honorary Degree in Laws of the Sussex University in 2005 .

Academics

In the 1970s she was a visiting scholar at Universidad Autonoma in Madrid. Since 1971 she has been a professor at the Warsaw School of Economics. For 1981–1987 she was Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Developing Countries, Warsaw School of Economics. She has been a full Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, since 1992, currently on leave. For 1991–1994 she was Deputy Director, Institute for Development and Strategic Studies, Warsaw.

Publishing

For 1991–1997 Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ekonomista, a Polish bi-monthly, and for 1994–1997 she was Editor-in-Chief of Gospodarka Narodowa, a Polish economics monthly.

Politics and policy

On 15 September 2010 Hübner supported the new initiative Spinelli Group in the European Parliament, which was founded to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the European Union (EU). Other prominent supporters are: Jacques Delors, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Guy Verhofstadt, Andrew Duff, Elmar Brok.
7 June 2009 elected MEP for Poland in Warsaw Constituency (from Civic Platform)
since 1 May 2004 Member of the European Commission, since November 2004 Commissioner for Regional Policy
2003–2004 Minister for European Affairs, Poland
2001–2003 Head of Office of the Committee for European Integration and Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
2000–2001 United Nations Under Secretary General and Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva
1998–2001 Economic Advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland
1998–2000 Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva
1997–1998 Minister Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
1996–1997 Government Plenipotentiary for establishing the Committee for European Integration (KIE), Secretary of KIE with the rank of Secretary of State and Head of the Office of the Committee for European Integration (UKIE)
1995–1996 Chief Negotiator for accession to OECD
1994–1996 Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Industry and Trade
1994–1995 Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Co-author of the Government Programme Strategy for Poland
1992–1996 Chairperson of the Council for Social Planning, Central Office for Planning
In the years 1970–1987 she was a member of communist Polish United Workers' Party PZPR

Professional and other affiliations

1996–1998 Member of the Scientific Board of Economic Sciences Institute of the Polish Academy of Science
1995–1997 Member of the National Statistics Council of Poland
1987–1996 Member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, Geneva
Member of the Programme Council of Nowe Życie Gospodarcze, Polish economic bi-weekly magazine
Member of the Programme Council of the European Business Academy for Enterprises, Warsaw
President of the Programme Board of the Management Institute, Warsaw
Member of the Board of Directors, Policy Network and Communications Ltd., London
Member of the Scientific Council of the State Veterinary Institute in Puławy
Member of the Scientific Council of the Central Mining Institute, Katowice
Member of the Programme Board of the Polish Institute of Oncology, Warsaw
Member of the association for counteracting social exclusion of persons suffering from psychiatric disorders MOST, Bydgoszcz
Honorary member of Soroptimist International Poland – Dom Polski Association, Warsaw

References

External links

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Official website

Political offices
New office	Polish European Commissioner 2004–2009	Succeeded by Paweł Samecki
Preceded by Pascal Lamy	European Commissioner for Trade 2004 Served alongside: Pascal Lamy	Succeeded by Peter Mandelson
Preceded by Jacques Barrot	European Commissioner for Regional Policy 2004–2009	Succeeded by Paweł Samecki

Barroso Commission I (2004–09)

Joaquín Almunia Catherine Ashton⁶ José Manuel Barroso¹ Jacques Barrot² Joe Borg Karel De Gucht⁹ Stavros Dimas Benita Ferrero-Waldner Ján Figeľ¹⁰ Franco Frattini^{2, 5} Mariann Fischer Boel Dalia Grybauskaitė⁷ Danuta Hübner⁸ Siim Kallas² László Kovács Neelie Kroes Meglena Kuneva³ Markos Kyprianou⁴ Peter Mandelson⁶ Charlie McCreevy Louis Michel⁹ Leonard Orban³ Andris Piebalgs Janez Potočnik Viviane Reding Olli Rehn Paweł Samecki⁸ Maroš Šefčovič¹⁰ Algirdas Šemeta⁷ Vladimír Špidla Antonio Tajani^{2, 5} Androulla Vassiliou⁴ Günter Verheugen² Margot Wallström²

1 = President. 2 = Vice President. 3 = Served from 1 January 2007. 4 = Vassiliou replaced Kyprianou on 3 March 2008. 5 = Tajani replaced Frattini on 18 June 2008. 6 = Ashton replaced Mandelson on 3 October 2008. 7 = Šemeta replaced Grybauskaitė on 1 July 2009. 8 = Samecki replaced Hübner on 4 July 2009. 9 = De Gucht replaced Michel on 17 July 2009. 10 = Šefčovič replaced Figeľ on 1 October 2009.

European Commissioners for Trade

Rey Deniau Dahrendorf Soames Haferkamp De Clercq Andriessen Brittan Lamy Hübner Mandelson Ashton Ferrero-Waldner De Gucht

European Commissioners from Poland

Danuta Hübner Paweł Samecki Janusz Lewandowski

Executive Secretaries of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Gunnar Myrdal (1947–57) Sakari Tuomioja (1957–60) Vladimir Velebit (1960–67) Janez Stanovnik (1968–82) Klaus Sahlgren (1982–86) Gerald Hinteregger (1987–93) Yves Berthelot (1993–2000) Danuta Hübner (2000–01) Brigita Schmögnerová (2002–05) Marek Belka (2005–08) Ján Kubiš (2008–12) Sven Alkalaj (2012–14) Christian Friis Bach (2014–)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 101726052 LCCN: n81055873 ISNI: 0000 0001 2321 4309 GND: 133540642 SUDOC: 149345364

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