Lewandowski, Janusz

Lewandowski, Janusz
Gender	male
Academic title	Dr.
Year of birth	1951
MEP for	European People's Party
Personal website	http://www.januszlewandowski.pl/
(Other) employerNot all of the people we document here at TTNI are employed at the Think Tank: typically members of advisory boards for example wont get paid. The term (Other) employer is therefore a bit misleading.	European Commission
Supervisory Board member in	Gdansk Institute for Market Economics
Subject of study	Economics
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He was from 1980 to 1989 economic adviser of the Solidarnosc, in the years 1991 and 1992/93 minister for privatization in the Polish Government from 1997 to 2004 member of the Polish Parliament (Sejm) for the Freedom Union (Unia Wolności, UW), from 2004 to 2001 MEP, and since 2010 Budget and Financial Programming Commissioner of the European Commission.

Notes

In this section we list interesting things that still have to be researched further, or that do not fit into the other sections.
In an interview with the Polish newspaper Novy Przemysl (New Industry) on 21 May 2013 he told: "The thesis that coal energy is the main cause of global warming is highly questionable," the commissioner said. "Moreover, more and more, there is a question mark put over the whole 'global warming' as such." (http://www.euractiv.com/climate-environment/polands-eu-commissioner-surprise-news-505869, cf.http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/report/Dealing%20in%20Doubt%202013%20-%20Greenpeace%20report%20on%20Climate%20Change%20Denial%20Machine.pdf, p.31)