Déjeuner autour de Jacek Rostowski
Série « Les déjeuners géopolitiques d’Aspen » en partenariat avec EY
Le mercredi 13 novembre 2019, l’Institut Aspen France et EY ont accueilli Jacek Rostowski, ancien Vice-Premier Ministre et ancien Ministre des Finances de la Pologne, à l’occasion d’un déjeuner sur le thème « Après le Brexit, faut-il craindre un décrochage du groupe de Visegrad ? ».
La rencontre a porté sur la nature du groupe de Visegrad (Hongrie, Pologne, République Tchèque, Slovaquie), sur ses objectifs, ses points de confluence et ses divergences, ainsi que sur des sujets connexes. Les participants ont pu ainsi échanger avec M. Rostowski et entre eux sur la procédure d’infraction à l’égard de la Hongrie et la Pologne ; la situation de l’état de droit dans ces deux pays, ainsi que de la liberté de la presse dans ces états. Les participants ont également mené une discussion sur les rapports entre la France et les pays du groupe de Visegrad, sur leurs rapports à la France, aux États-Unis et à la Russie, ainsi que sur la politique d’élargissement de l’Union Européenne dans les Balkans.
Jacek Rostowski was born on 30 April 1951 in London.
He was appointed Minister of Finance of Poland in 2007 by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and served until 2013, becoming Tusk’s Deputy Prime Minister in 2013. In the parliamentary elections in 2011 he was elected to the Sejm as Deputy for Warsaw. Mr Rostowski is the longest serving Minister of Finance of Poland. During his tenure, Poland achieved the fastest growth rate of any EU or OECD country. In 2010 the “Financial Times” voted him the second best and in 2011 and 2012 the third best European Minister of Finance. “Emerging Markets” chose him the best minister of finance of the European emerging markets in 2009 and 2012. In 2015 he was Chief Political Adviser to Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz.
In the years 1995 – 2000 and 2005 – 2006 Rostowski was Head of the Economics Department at Central European University in Budapest. During 1992 – 1995 he worked at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). From 1988 to 1995 he was was lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
From 1989 to 1991 Rostowski was Economic Adviser to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Leszek Balcerowicz. From 1997 to 2001 he chaired the Macroeconomic Policy Council at the Ministry of Finance and from 2002 to 2004 he was Adviser to the Chairman of the National Bank of Poland. Rostowski was also Adviser to the Government of the Russian Federation for macroeconomic policy in 1991-2. He is a Founder Member of CASE – Centre for Social and Economic Research in Warsaw.
Mr Rostowski is the author of numerous publications on European economic policy, monetary, financial and fiscal policy and the transformation of post-communist economies.
He is a Trustee of the Aspen Initiative UK, a member of the European Shadow Financial Regulation Committee and teaches as Sciences Po in Paris and the Central European University in Budapest.