page_title: Janusz Lewandowski
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Janusz Lewandowski / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Paweł Rogaliński and Janusz Lewandowski Polski: Paweł Rogaliński i Janusz Lewandowski
context_page_description: Janusz Antoni Lewandowski is a Polish politician and economist belonging to the Gdańsk liberals group, and a former member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Committee on Budgets. On 27 November 2009 he obtained the post of Budget and Financial Programming Commissioner of the European Commission and is affiliated to the European People's Party. He was re-elected for the 8th term of the European Parliament, as a member of the EPP group.
context_section_description: Lewandowski was born in Lublin. He graduated in economics from University of Gdańsk, received a doctorate and was a lecturer there until 1984. Later he worked for Polish Oceanic Lines (Polskie Linie Oceaniczne). He was also a lecturer at Harvard University and the founder of the Research Institute for Market Economy in Gdańsk (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 and Newsweek.
caption: Paweł Rogaliński and Janusz Lewandowski (2012)
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