List of Senators

Member of the Fourth Term Sejm.

Member of the Sixth Term European Parliament.

Born on 8th May 1960 in Cracow.
Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Cracow Academy of Medicine in 1986. 1987 – graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the Jagiellonian University and completed doctoral studies at this faculty in 1995. He worked as a doctor in Cracow hospitals – Rydygier Hospital and Babiński Hospital.
From 1990 until 1992 he managed the Information Department at State TV Centre in Cracow. Between 1993 and 1999 was the head of the International Centre for Development of Democracy in Cracow, which was later converted into the  nstitute for Strategic Studies. He was an adviser to the government plenipotentiary for Poland’s accession negotiations with the European Union in 1998 and 1999. 1999–2000 – held the position of a Deputy Minister of National Defence, and  between 2007 and 2011 – of the Minister of National Defence. Lecturer in the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University and the Cracow University of Economics.
Since 1978 he was an opposition activist and cooperated with the Student Committee of Solidarity. He was one of the founders of the Independent Students Association and was active within its underground structures. He was interned in Załęże under martial law. He was a founding member and an activist in the “Wolność and Pokój” (Freedom and Peace) movement in the second half of the 1980s. From 1988 to 1990 he was the editor-in-chief of an independent magazine “Tumult”.
He was a deputy chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and also worked in the National Defence Committee in the Fourth Term Sejm. Chaired the Committee on Belarus and was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Security and Defence Committee in the Sixth Term European Parliament. Deputy chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a member of the National Defence Committee in the Eighth Term Senate.
Member of the Civic Platform Party of Poland and of its national council.