Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski | |
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| Senate Chair of theCommittee on Emigration and Liaison with Poles Abroad | |
| Assumed office 12 November 2019 | |
| Deputy | Maria Koc(PiS) Janina Sagatowska(PiS) Wojciech Ziemniak(KO) |
| Preceded by | Janina Sagatowska |
| Minister of Culture and National Heritage | |
| In office 31 October 2005 – 16 November 2007 | |
| President | Aleksander Kwaśniewski Lech Kaczyński |
| Prime Minister | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Preceded by | Waldemar Dąbrowski |
| Succeeded by | Bogdan Zdrojewski |
| In office 16 March 2000 – 12 July 2001 | |
| President | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Prime Minister | Jerzy Buzek |
| Preceded by | Andrzej Zakrzewski |
| Succeeded by | Andrzej Zieliński |
| Member of theSejm | |
| In office 20 October 1997 – 27 May 2014 | |
| Constituency | 3 – Wrocław |
| In office 25 November 1991 – 31 May 1993 | |
| Member of theEuropean Parliament | |
| In office 1 July 2014 – 1 July 2019 | |
| Member of theSenate | |
| Assumed office 12 November 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Barbara Borys-Damięcka |
| Constituency | 44-Warsaw |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1964-07-28)28 July 1964 (age 61) |
| Political party | Law and Justice (2002–2017) |
| Spouse | Lidia Ujazdowska |
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski (born 28 July 1964 inKielce)[1] is a Polish politician and lawyer, associate professor of law at theUniversity of Łódź.Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the governments ofJerzy Buzek (2000–2001),Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (2005–2006) andJarosław Kaczyński (2006–2007), deputyspeaker of the Sejm of the fourth term. Member of the Sejm of the 1st (1991–1993) and of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th term (1997–2014), Member of the European Parliament of the 8th term (2014–2019), senator of the 10th term (from 2019).
Author of press publications, as well as the author, co-author and editor of books on cultural policy,politics of memory, political and constitutional issues, history of Polishconservatism and conservative thought. He has written forRzeczpospolita,Gazeta Wyborcza,Dziennik,Wprost,Gazeta Polska,Gość Niedzielny,Nowe Państwo [pl] andŻycie [pl]. Ujazdowski was a member of the editorial board ofPolityka Polska (1990–1991). He launched and editedKwartalnik Konserwatywny. He is also the founder and director of the European Center for Constitutional Research (Europejskie Centrum Badań Ustrojowych) at theUniversity of Łódź. In June 2021, he co-founded, withMarek Biernacki and others, the think tank Centrum Dobrego Państwa.
On 13 October 2022, Ujazdowski launched theCentre for Poland as a political party, which will be part of thePolish Coalition.[2]
He was born into a family of attorneys: his father Kazimierz Mieczysław Ujazdowski, a Member of Parliament, acted for the defence in political trials during themartial law period, and his grandfather Kazimierz Cyprian Ujazdowski represented defendants during theBrest trials.
Ujazdowski is a member ofOpus Dei.[3]
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