Ambassador Jan Vincent-Rostowski took up his duties as Permanent Representative of Poland to the OECD on 11 April 2025.
Prior to that, he served as Poland’s Finance Minister from 2007 to 2013, becoming the longest-serving person in that role. His tenure coincided with the Global Financial Crisis, during which Poland achieved the fastest economic growth of any OECD and European country. He was responsible for drafting and implementing nine national budgets, each with expenditures of approximately $100 billion. From 2011 to 2015, he was a Member of Parliament for Warsaw in the Sejm of the Republic of Poland.
As Poland’s Finance Minister, he participated in over sixty Ecofin Council meetings and chaired six during the critical period of the Eurozone crisis in the second half of 2011. He played a central role in negotiating major EU fiscal reforms, including in the reform packages known as the "6-pack" and "2-pack" legislation, and was instrumental in establishing the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM).
Ambassador Vincent-Rostowski also currently serves on the Board of Katalyst Education, a leading digital education charity active in Poland and Ukraine, continuing his lifelong commitment to public service and education.
Before entering politics in 2007, he had an academic and advisory career. He held senior academic positions at institutions including University College London, the London School of Economics, and the Central European University in Budapest, where he was the Head of the Economics Department. He was also a key advisor during the post-communist transition in Poland, also working in Russia, Ukraine, and Serbia, contributing to foundational economic reforms.
He is the author and editor of several influential books, including Macroeconomic Instability in Post-Communist Countries (Oxford University Press, 1998), The Eastern Enlargement of the Eurozone (Kluwer Academic, 2001 with Marek Dąbrowski), and Banking Reform in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Central European University Press, 1995), and of over 54 publications, including 9 books and 44 articles in academic journals.