- Janusz Lewandowski
Janusz Lewandowski (pronounced|'januʃ lɛvan'dɔfskʲi, born
13 June 1951 inLublin ) is a Polish economist and politician belonging to theGdansk liberals group, and a member of theEuropean Parliament (elected on13 June 2004 ), Chairman of the Committee on Budgets.Biography
Janusz Lewandowski graduated in economics from
Gdansk University , received a doctorate and was a lecturer there until 1984. Later he worked forPolish Oceanic Lines (Polskie Linie Oceaniczne). He was also a lecturer atHarvard University and the founder of the Research Institute for Market Economy inGdansk (Instytut Badań nad Gospodarką Rynkową w Gdańsku).He is an author of a book on famous liberals and he also writes short articles for several newspapers and magazines, including Rzeczpospolita,
Gazeta Wyborcza ,Parkiet ,Polityka ,Wprost andNewsweek .Political career
From 1980-1989 he was an economics adviser to the
Solidarity anti-communist movement, and in 1988 he was one of the founders of the Liberal-Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny ). He was the Minister of Privatization in the cabinets ofJan Krzysztof Bielecki (1990-1991) andHanna Suchocka (1992-1993). His major successes were the foundation of theWarsaw Stock Exchange and the mass privatization programme (Program Powszechnej Prywatyzacji).He lost his parliamentary seat in the 1993 elections and worked as an international expert from 1994-1997. After the merger of KLD and
Unia Demokratyczna in 1994 he become a member ofUnia Wolnosci , and in 1997 member ofSejm representing UW. Together withDonald Tusk and other liberals he seceded from UW to formPlatforma Obywatelska , and was elected an MP again in 2001. Since 2003 he was an observer in theEuropean Parliament .In the European elections of
13 June 2004 he was a candidate ofPlatforma Obywatelska in constituency #1Pomeranian Voivodship and received 79,879 votes (=20.17%, the best result in the region). On23 July ,2004 he was elected chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Budgets.ee also
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European Parliament Election, 2004 (Poland)
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