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Jan Vincent-Rostowski
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
Assumed office
25 February 2013
PresidentBronisław Komorowski
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
Minister of Finance
Assumed office
16 November 2007
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
Preceded byZyta Gilowska
Personal details
Born (1951-04-30) 30 April 1951 (age 73)
London, United Kingdom
Political partyCivic Platform
SpouseWanda Rostowska
Alma materUniversity College, London
London School of Economics

Jan Vincent-Rostowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈvint͡sɛnt rɔsˈtɔfskʲi], also known as Jacek Rostowski, born April 30, 1951 in London) is a Polish and British economist, conservative politician, academic and the current Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.

Early life and education

Jan Vincent-Rostowski was born into a Polish exile family in London, England. During the Second World War his father, Roman Rothfeld (Rostowski), served as 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, Roman Rostowski worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office with postings to Kenya, Mauritius and the Seychelles where Jacek Rostowski spent much of his childhood.

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) in London.

  • 1972: Bachelor of Science – International Relations, University College London
  • 1973: Master of Arts – Economy and History, University College London
  • 1975: Master of Science – Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

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 great economic transformation 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. From 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 (accredited by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York for and behalf of New York State Education Departmen. Stanford, Harvard, Columbia University, Yale or Berkley University are also accredited by SUNY). (Post suspended following appointment as Polish Finance Minister.)

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

He is one of the co-founders of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). He was also a member of the Foundation’s Council (he resigned from this post when he was nominated as Minister of Finance).

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

In 2004 Vincent-Rostowski was appointed Economic Advisor to Bank PEKAO SA. He left this post in November 2007.

Vincent-Rostowski joined the Cabinet of Premier Donald Tusk on November 16, 2007 and currently serves as the Finance Minister of the Republic of Poland. He was named European Finance Minister of the Year in 2009 by The Banker magazine.[1] In November 2012 Rostowski was cited by the Financial Times as the third best finance minister in Europe.

Vincent-Rostowski has published around 40 academic papers on European enlargement, monetary policy, currency policy and the transformation of post communist economies. He is an author of academic books including, Macroeconomic Instability in Post-Communist Countries published by Oxfored University Press (http://www.facebook.com/janrostowski/info)

He supports Poland joining the Euro, but following the European sovereign debt crisis, advocates waiting until "the Euro has become safe to join" . {interview on BBC News 'Hard Talk', 2 February 2012} [2]

He was a member of Britain's Conservative Party. It was announced in the beginning of 2010 that he became member of the Civic Platform party two months earlier.[2]

Rostowski is married and has two children. He is fluent in Polish, English and French.

Views

Rostowski is a believer in free markets and a fiscal and social conservative. He believes that in vitro fertilization should be banned, taking a pro-life stance; is against same-sex civil unions, believing that the traditional family is a basis of society; and is against abortion.[3]

References

  1. ^ Finance Minister of the Year – regional winners
  2. ^ Jacek Rostowski: ascending to PO - As a Minister, he belongs to the party
  3. ^ [1]
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Finance
2007–present 		Incumbent

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