Caretaker commissioner

By Hilary Heuler - 27.08.2009 / 04:01 CET

Paweł Samecki, Poland's new European commissioner, is an able man, but modest enough to accept that he will not survive into the next administration

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Curriculum vitae

1958: Born, Łódź
1981-91: Assistant, then assistant professor, Institute of Economics, University of Łódź
1991-96: Director, bureau of foreign assistance, Office of the Council of Ministers
1996-97: Director, department for foreign
assistance, European programmes and funds, Office of the Committee for European Integration
1997-98: Under-secretary of state, Polish ministry of finance
1998-2002: Reseach project co-ordinator,
Natolin European Centre, Warsaw
2004-09: Member of the management board, National Bank of Poland
2009-: European commissioner for regional policy