Hübner, Danuta (1948 - )
Commissioner for Regional affairs.
Danuta Hübner is one of the most dynamic forces behind the drive for European unity. Having graduated from the then Central Higher School of Planning and Statistics, now the Warsaw School of Economics, she developed considerable expertise in the political economy of transition. She was a Fulbright scholar at Berkley University, then a Lecturer at California State University and later a Professor in Economics before becoming Editor of Polish ‘Ekonomista’.
She also worked for the United Nations as Under-Secretary General and Deputy Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva. Since she became Polish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 2001, she has masterminded negotiations between Poland and the European Union. Hübner is a controversial choice in Poland where she has been accused of being "subservient to Brussels". After Polish entrance in the EU she was assigned to shadowing Pascal Lamy's external trade dossier.
Links
http://www.kprm.gov.pl/english/92_5937.htm
http://europa.eu.int/comm/commissioners/hubner/cv_en.pdf
