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Chairman of the Council of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels. Senior Adviser – Covington & Burling Brussels.

Vice President of the Council of the University of Silesia. 2014-2019 EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, Industry and Entrepreneurship Minister of Regional Development (2007-2013), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development and Infrastructure (2013-2014) in Donald Tusk’s governments.

A long-time local government official, from 1996 she headed the department responsible for regional policy and European funds at the Provincial Office and then at the Marshal’s Office of the Silesian Voivodeship.

Graduate of the Jagiellonian University, the National School of Public Administration and postgraduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics. Scholarship holder of the British Foreign and Commowealth Office and the German Marshal Fund.