Jerzy Buzek

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Jerzy Buzek : biography

3 July 1940 –

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Career timeline

Education

  • From 1997 to 2001: Professor of technical sciences, actively engaged in public work, Prime Minister of Poland;
  • Honorary doctorates of the Universities of Dortmund, Seoul, Süleyman Demirel University (Isparta);
  • University lecturer of long standing at Opole, Gliwice and Częstochowa, researcher at the Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice;
  • 1972: Research stay, on a British Council scholarship, at the University of Cambridge.

Career

  • 1992–1997: Representative of Poland at the International Energy Agency – Programme of Greenhouse Gas Effect;
  • 1996: Organiser and chairman of an international network of 19 institutions working on energy and environmental protection;
  • Author of some 200 research papers, over a dozen rationalisations and three patents in the fields of environmental protection, power and process engineering;
  • 1981: Member of the independent, self-governing trade union ‘NSZZ Solidarność’, Chairman of the I National Congress of Delegates of ‘Solidarność’;
  • 1981: Active in the Solidarność underground structure;
  • 1997: Elected as a Member of the Polish Parliament;
  • As Prime Minister, in 1999, took Poland into NATO and prepared the country for integration into the European Union (including decentralisation of the State – consolidation of the role of local self-government);
  • In 1998, began accession negotiations;
  • 1999: Represented the Social Movement of Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS) in the PPE–DE;
  • 1999: Established the annual Pro Publico Bono prize for the best national civic initiatives;
  • Set up the Family Foundation together with his wife (1998), having gained greater understanding of the meaning of help for the needy after their experiences with the battle for the life of their own child.
  • 2012: Member of the International Honorary Councilhttp://diplomats.pl/en/component/content/article/463.html of the European Academy of Diplomacy.

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