Danuta Hübner (born on 8 April 1948, in Nisko, Poland) was Polish Minister for European Affairs and is currently European Union Commissioner for Regional Policy.

Contents

1 Academic C.V. 2 Political and administrative C.V. 3 Extraprofessional activities 4 External Links

Academic C.V.

• 1992 Professor
• 1991-1994 Deputy Director, Institute for Development and Strategic Studies , Warsaw
• 1988-1990 Fulbright scholar, University of California, Berkeley
• 1981-1987 Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Developing Countries, Warsaw School of Economics
• 1980 Post-doctoral degree in international trade relations, Warsaw School of Economics
• 1974 Ph. D. in economics, Warsaw School of Economics 1974 Visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Sussex
• 1970's Visiting scholar Universidad Autonoma in Madrid
• since 1971 Scholar at the Warsaw School of Economics (currently on leave)
• 1971 MSc in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics (Central School of Planning and Statistics)

Political and administrative C.V.

• since 1 May 2004 Member of the European Commission, since November 2004 responsible for Regional Policy
• 2003-2004 Minister for European Affairs
• 2001-2003 Head of Office of the Committee for European Integration and Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 2000-2001 United Nations Under Secretary General and Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva
• 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

Extraprofessional activities

Currently Posts in foundations or similar bodies

• Member of the Programme Council of Nowe Życie Gospodarcze , Polish economic bi-weekly magazine
• 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
• Member of the Board of Directors, Policy Network and Communications Ltd., London

Posts in educational institutions

• Member of the Programme Board of the Polish Institute of Oncology, Warsaw
• President of the Programme Board of the Management Institute, Warsaw
• 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 Council of the European Business Academy for Enterprises, Warsaw
• 1998-2001 Economic Advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland
• 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 1994-1997 Editor-in-Chief of Gospodarka Narodowa , Polish monthly
• 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
• 1991-1997 Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ekonomista , Polish bi-monthly
• 1987-1996 Member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, Geneva

External Links

http://europa.eu.int/comm/commission_barroso/hubner/profile/profile_en.htm