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Professor Danuta Hübner has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. She is the Chair of the Regional Development Committee, and also works in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis. She is a member of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with the United States, and the Delegation for Relations with Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and to the EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee.
Since the early 1990s, as an academic and a politician she has been engaged in building the new Polish economy, seeking its most favourable position within European and world economies. In 1994 she became an advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister, and in 1994-1996 she served as the Deputy Minister for Industry and Trade. As chief negotiator, she facilitated Poland's entry into the OECD in 1996. In 1997-1998, she served as the Head of the Chancellery of the President of Poland.
She developed the civil service structures required for Poland's negotiations and preparations for EU membership. After Poland's entry into the EU on 1st
May 2004, she became the first Polish member of the European Commission.
Professor Danuta Hübner is full Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics; awarded honorary doctorates in economics from the Economic University in Poznan and the National and World Economy University in Sophia, Bulgaria; in law from Sussex University, UK; in political science from Universit degli Studi Camerino and from the University of Valenciennes.
