Danuta Hübner (Poland)
UNECE Executive Secretary from 2000 to 2001
Mrs. Danuta Hübner was appointed as Executive Secretary
of the United Nations Economic Commission
for Europe on 1 June 2000.
Since November 1998, Mrs.
Hübner, a national of Poland, had been
Deputy Executive Secretary of the Commission.
Prior to that, from November 1997, she was
Minister, Head of the Chancellery of the
President of the Republic of Poland.
From October 1996 through
November 1997, Mrs. Hübner was the
State Secretary for European Integration.
She conducted the negotiations for Poland's
membership in the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD), which
Poland joined in November 1996.
From 1994 to 1996, she
held the office of Under-Secretary of State
in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, where
she was responsible for European integration
and small and medium-sized enterprises.
As Under-Secretary she authored the first
governmental policy programme for small
and medium-sized industries, as well as
an industrial policy programme "International
Competitiveness of the Polish Industry."
In 1994, she participated in elaborating
a government programme "Strategy for
Poland," authoring the chapter on the
international competitiveness of the Polish
economy.
For many years she has
been Deputy Editor-in Chief of the Economist
bi-monthly and Editor-in-Chief of the National
Economy monthly. She is a member of the
Scientific Board of the Economic Sciences
Institute at the Polish Academy of Sciences,
the Development and Strategic Studies Institute
and the Statistics Council. She was three
times elected to the Executive Committee
of the European Association of Development
Institutes in Geneva.
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