Bronisław Komorowski

President of the Republic of Poland

Bronisław Komorowski has graduated from the Department of History at the University of Warsaw. From 1980 to 1981 he worked for the Centre of Social Investigation of NSZZ “Solidarity”. Starting from 1982 he was an editor of an independent underground magazine ‘ABC’ (which stands for the Adriatic Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea) which was dealing with the problems of the East and Central-East Europe. He was also the president of the Foundation for Helping Polish Libraries, the president of the board of the Euro-Atlantic Association as well as the president of Maritime and River League. Since 1989 he has held several government posts. From 1990 to 1993 he was a civil deputy minister for national defence specialising in educational and social issues in the governments of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki and Hanna Suchocka. Between 1997 and 2000 he presided over the Parliamentary National Defence Committee. Between 2000 and 2001 he was the minister of national defence in the government of Jerzy Buzek. Since 2001 he was the deputy chairman of the Parliamentary National Defence Committee and a member of Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs. Since 2001 he has been a member of Civic Platform in which he held the function of the chairman of the Mazowsze Region and since 2006 has been the deputy chairmain of the party. In October 2005 he was elected Deputy Speaker for the 5th Lower House of Parliament but on 2007 in the first session of the 6th Lower House of Parliament Bronisław Komorowski was elected Speaker by 292 votes. He has been elected as the president of Poland on June 10, 2010.