Radosław Sikorski
Polish politician and journalist (born 1963) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radosław Tomasz Sikorski (Polish: [raˈdɔswaf ɕiˈkɔrskʲi] ⓘ; born 23 February 1963), better known as Radek Sikorski, is a Polish politician, journalist and statesman who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland in Donald Tusk's cabinet since 2023, previously holding the office between 2007 and 2014. He was a Member of the European Parliament between 2019 and 2023. Earlier he was Marshal of the Sejm from 2014 to 2015. He previously served as Deputy Minister of National Defence (1992) in Jan Olszewski's cabinet, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1998–2001) in Jerzy Buzek's cabinet and Minister of National Defence (2005–2007) in the cabinets of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński.
Radosław Sikorski | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
Assumed office 13 December 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Donald Tusk |
Preceded by | Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk |
In office 16 November 2007 – 22 September 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Donald Tusk |
Preceded by | Anna Fotyga |
Succeeded by | Grzegorz Schetyna |
Member of the European Parliament for Poland | |
In office 2 July 2019 – 12 December 2023 | |
Succeeded by | Krzysztof Brejza |
Parliamentary group | EPP |
Marshal of the Sejm | |
In office 24 September 2014 – 23 June 2015 | |
Preceded by | Ewa Kopacz |
Succeeded by | Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska |
Minister of National Defence | |
In office 31 October 2005 – 7 February 2007 | |
Prime Minister | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Jarosław Kaczyński |
Preceded by | Jerzy Szmajdziński |
Succeeded by | Aleksander Szczygło |
Member of the Sejm | |
In office 5 November 2007 – 12 November 2015 | |
Parliamentary group | PO |
Constituency | Bydgoszcz |
Member of the Senate | |
In office 20 October 2005 – 5 November 2007 | |
Parliamentary group | PiS |
Constituency | Bydgoszcz |
Personal details | |
Born | Radosław Tomasz Sikorski (1963-02-23) 23 February 1963 (age 61) Bydgoszcz, Poland |
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Political party | Civic Platform (since 2007) Law and Justice (2005–2007) |
Other political affiliations | Poland: Civic Coalition (since 2018) EU: European People's Party (2019–2023) |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Education | Pembroke College, Oxford (BA) |
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A graduate member of Pembroke College, Oxford, Sikorski worked as a journalist for The Observer and The Spectator between 1986 and 1989. He was a war correspondent in Afghanistan in 1986 before reporting on the conflict in Angola in 1989. Between 2003 and 2005, Sikorski was a member of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute. In 2012, he was included on the list of Top 100 Global Thinkers 2012 published by Foreign Policy magazine. In 2015, Sikorski became a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University. He is a Senior Network Member at the European Leadership Network (ELN).[1] He is a member of the Civic Platform, in which he is seen as being part of the party's right wing.[2]