Prof. Danuta Hübner, European Parliament
Danuta Hübner was the first Polish EU Commissioner, first for Trade and subsequently for Regional Policy.
She is a Professor of Economics, and has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. Currently, she is a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs – for which she was recently appointed as the Rapporteur on the review of the regulatory framework for investment firms and market operators (MiFID II, MiFIR and EMIR) – as well as for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the Committee for International Trade. She is also a member of the Delegation for Relations with the US.
Before joining the European Parliament, she was the chief negotiator for Poland’s membership of the OECD, and Executive Secretary of the European Economic Commission with the rank of Deputy Secretary General at the United Nations.
In Poland she lead the Office of the Committee for European Integration and Minister of European Affairs, overseeing the process of Poland’s accession to the European Union.