Janusz Lewandowski

Janusz Lewandowski
European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget
In office
9 February 2010 – 1 July 2014
PresidentJosé Manuel Barroso
Preceded byAlgirdas Šemeta
Succeeded byAndris Piebalgs (Acting)
Member of the European Parliament
for Poland
Assumed office
1 July 2014
Minister of Privatisation
In office
12 January 1991 – 23 December 1991
In office
11 July 1992 – 26 October 1993
Member of Sejm
In office
25 November 1991 – 14 October 1993
In office
20 October 1997 – 13 June 2004
Personal details
BornJanusz Antoni Lewandowski
(1951-06-13) 13 June 1951
PartySolidarity (1980–1988)
Liberal Democratic Congress (1988–1994)
Freedom Union (1994–2001)
Civic Platform (2001–present)
Alma materUniversity of Gdańsk
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Janusz Antoni Lewandowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjanuʂ lɛvanˈdɔfskʲi]; born 13 June 1951) is a Polish politician and economist belonging to the Gdańsk liberals group, and a former member of the European Parliament (elected on 13 June 2004), 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 (EPP). He was re-elected for the 8th term (2014–2019) of the European Parliament, as a member of the EPP group.