Lena Kolarska-Bobińska

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Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, May 2012

Lena Barbara Kolarska-Bobińska (born December 3, 1947 in Prague ) is a Polish sociologist and politician.

Life

Kolarska-Bobińska studied at the University of Warsaw and is a Fellow of Stanford University and the Business School of Carnegie Mellon University . From 1991 to 1997 she was director of the opinion research institute CBOS, since 1997 she has been director of Instytut Spraw Publicznych in Warsaw.

Kolarska-Bobińska is the author of around 150 publications and has lectured at universities in Poland and abroad. She commented on political and social developments for Polish and international media, and her columns appear regularly in the French journal Les Echos .

From 1992 to 1995 she was a member of President Lech Wałęsa's Economic Council , from 1998 to 2001 adviser to the Polish chief negotiator in the accession negotiations to the EU, and from 2001 to 2005 she was on the advisory board of President Aleksander Kwaśniewski . In the European elections in 2009 she was elected to the European Parliament for the Platforma Obywatelska - Citizens' Platform (PO) in her constituency of Lublin . Lena Kolarska-Bobińska supports a federal Europe and has signed the Spinelli Group's manifesto .

On December 2, 2013, she resigned her mandate in the European Parliament, one day later she took up her new position as Minister of Science and Education in the Tusk II cabinet, succeeding Barbara Kudrycka . She also retained this office in the Kopacz cabinet , whose term of office ended on November 16, 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. MamPrawoWiedziec.pl. Retrieved March 26, 2019 (Polish).

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