Jacek Rostowski

Jacek Rostowski    (economist, politician)
Born	30 April 1951 London, United Kingdom
Nationality	British, Polish
Ethnicity	Jewish
Alma mater	Westminster School, University College London, London School of Economics
Spouse	Wanda Rostowska
Party	Civic Platform
Polish-Jewish economist and politician who was born and grew up in Britain. After working for George Soros's Central European University, he became a Polish citizen to take over as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland in 2007. He attended the 2012 and 2013 Bilderberg meetings.  Deputy Prime Minister of Poland In office 25 February 2013 - 27 November 2013 Succeeded by Elżbieta Bieńkowska  Poland/Minister/Finance In office 16 November 2007 - 27 November 2013 Appointed by Donald Tusk  Head of the Department of Economics In office 2005 - 2006 Employer Central European University  Head of the Department of Economics In office 1995 - 2000 Employer Central European University  Lecturer In office 1988 - 1995 Employer UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Succeeded by António Nogueira Leite

Jan Anthony Vincent-Rostowski, also known as Jacek Rostowski is a Polish-Jewish economist and politician who was born and grew up in Britain. After working for George Soros's Central European University, he became a Polish citizen to take over as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland in 2007. He attended the 2012 and 2013 Bilderberg meetings.

Background and early life

Rostowski was born into a Polish-Jewish exile family in London. During the Second World War his father, Roman Rostowski, had been personal Secretary to Tomasz Arciszewski, Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile and did not return to Poland after the war. In the 1950s, his father worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was posted to Kenya, Mauritius and the Seychelles where Jacek Rostowski spent much of his childhood.

Education

Jan Vincent-Rostowski attended Westminster School in London, followed by undergraduate and postgraduate studies at University College London (UCL) and the London School of Economics (LSE).

Career

Jan Vincent-Rostowski was a lecturer at Kingston University (former Kingston Polytechnic), then from 1988 to 1995 at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. From 1992 to 1995, he also worked concurrently at the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.

During this time, together with Ljubo Sirc, Vincent-Rostowski co-edited the academic journal, Communist Economies (later known as Communist Economies & Economic Transformation and Post-Communist Economies).

During the early 1980s, he was active (together with his wife Wanda Kościa) in the Polish Solidarity Campaign, a Solidarity support group based in London. From 1989 to 1991, during Poland's transition following the fall of communism, Vincent-Rostowski was an advisor to the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Leszek Balcerowicz.

In the early 1990s, Vincent-Rostowski also advised the Russian Federation on macroeconomic policy. In 1991, he co-founded the Warsaw-based Centre for Social and Economic Analysis (CASE), a think-tank designed to assist Europe’s newly independent nations during the transition to capitalism. He was also a member of the Foundation's Council (he resigned from this post when he was nominated as Minister of Finance).

Since 1995, he has been Professor of Economics and was the head of the Department of Economics at the Central European University in Budapest during the periods: 1995–2000 and 2005–2006.

From 1997 to 2000, Vincent-Rostowski was Chairman of the Macro-Economic Policy Council at the Polish Ministry of Finance.

From 2002 to 2004, he was an Economic Adviser to the National Bank of Poland.

In 2004, Vincent-Rostowski was appointed Economic Adviser to Bank Pekao. He left this post in November 2007.

Minister of Finance, 2007–2013

Vincent-Rostowski joined the Cabinet of Premier Donald Tusk on 16 November 2007, and served as Minister of Finance of Poland until November 2013. He was named European Finance Minister of the Year in 2009 by The Banker magazine. In November 2012, Rostowski was cited by the Financial Times as the third best finance minister in Europe.

In 2011, he predicted that the euro will be introduced in Poland in the next decade, but that it will not be on the agenda for the next few years.

Later career

Rostowski was a member of Britain's Conservative Party. In the beginning of 2010, it was announced that two months prior he has become member of the Civic Platform party (PO). In the wake of the Parliamentary Elections of 2011, he became Member of Parliament, being elected from the list of Civic Platform Party (PO).

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2012	31 May 2012	3 June 2012	US Virginia Chantilly	The 58th Bilderberg, in Chantilly, Virginia. Unusually just 4 years after an earlier Bilderberg meeting there.
Bilderberg/2013	6 June 2013	9 June 2013	Watford UK	The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
Brussels Forum/2011	25 March 2011	27 March 2011	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2009	23 January 2009	27 January 2009	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order".

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