Danuta Hübner
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Danuta Hübner MEP |
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| Chair of the European Parliament Constitutional Affairs Committee | |
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Assumed office 7 July 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Carlo Casini |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 7 June 2009 |
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| Constituency | Poland |
| European Commissioner for Regional Policy | |
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In office 22 November 2004 – 4 July 2009 |
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| President | José Manuel Barroso |
| Preceded by | Jacques Barrot |
| Succeeded by | Paweł Samecki |
| European Commissioner for Trade | |
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In office 1 May 2004 – 22 November 2004 Served with Pascal Lamy |
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| President | Romano Prodi |
| Preceded by | Pascal Lamy |
| Succeeded by | Peter Mandelson |
| Personal details | |
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Danuta Hübner 8 April 1948 Nisko, Poland |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Political party |
 Polish:Civic Platform  EU:European People's Party |
| Alma mater | Warsaw School of Economics |
Danuta Hübner (Polish: [daˈnuta ˈxʲybnɛr] or [ˈxʲibnɛr]; born 8 April 1948) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament from Poland. She has served as European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 22 November 2004 until 4 July 2009, when she resigned to become a Member of European Parliament for the Civic Platform. In 2012, Professor Hübner became a member of the International Honorary Council of the European Academy of Diplomacy.
She received her MSc in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics (Central School of Planning and Statistics) in 1971, her PhD in economics, Warsaw School of Economics 1974 Visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Sussex in 1974, and her post-doctoral degree in international trade relations, Warsaw School of Economics in 1980. She was a 1988–1990 Fulbright scholar, University of California, Berkeley and received an honorary Degree in Laws of the Sussex University in 2005 .
In the 1970s she was a visiting scholar at Universidad Autonoma in Madrid. Since 1971 she has been a professor at the Warsaw School of Economics. For 1981–1987 she was Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Developing Countries, Warsaw School of Economics. She has been a full Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, since 1992, currently on leave. For 1991–1994 she was Deputy Director, Institute for Development and Strategic Studies, Warsaw.
For 1991–1997 Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ekonomista, a Polish bi-monthly, and for 1994–1997 she was Editor-in-Chief of Gospodarka Narodowa, a Polish economics monthly.
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