Dariusz Rosati

Dariusz Kajetan Rosati ['darjuʂ rɔsati] (born August 8, 1946 in Radom as Gaetano Dario Rosati) is a Polish professor of economics and a politician who is a member of the European Parliament (elected on June 13, 2004).

Biography

Dariusz Rosati is a graduate of international trade from Warsaw School of Economics and a professor of economics.

In the 1980s he was a member of Polish United Workers Party (PZPR) and an economic adviser to Mieczysław Rakowski's government, the last communist regime in Poland. In the 1990s he was a supporter (but not a member) of the post-communist parties, first Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), and today Social Democratic Party of Poland (SDPL).

Dariusz Rosati was a co-founder and director of the Global Economy Institute (Instytut Gospodarki Światowej) and the Institute of Economic Situations and Prices (Instytut Koniunktur i Cen). He worked as an expert in various international organizations, indluding the economic commission of the United Nations in Geneva and an adviser to the Chairman of the European Commission in Brussels.