Jas Gawronski

Jas Gawronski (born on 7 February 1936 in Vienna, Austria) is a Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Forza Italia, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

He is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade, a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.

Education

• 1958: Graduate in Law from the University of Rome

Career

• 1959–1962: Eastern European correspondent of Il giorno newspaper
• 1962–1966: On the editorial staff of journalistic programmes for RAI (Italian radio and television broadcasting company) from Vietnam, India, the United States and Eastern Europe
• 1979–1981: RAI correspondent in New York (1966–1977), Paris (1977–1979) and Moscow and Warsaw
• 1985–1992: Director of political and scientific programmes on the television channels of Finivest
• Has contributed since 1989 to the daily newspaper La Stampa, of which he was elected member of the Board of Directors
• 1985: Member of Turin City Council (1982–1983) and of Piedmont Regional Council
• 1996–1999: Senator
• 1994–1995: Spokesman for the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
• 1981–1994 and since 1999: Member of the European Parliament

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

External links

• European Parliament biography of Jas Gawronski
• Declaration of financial interests (in Italian; PDF file)