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Jerzy Buzek
Professor Jerzy Buzek is an academic
lecturer and politician and was Prime Minister of Poland from 1997
to 2001. Currently, he is a member of the European Parliament and
a member of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and
European Democrats. He serves on the Committee on Industry, Research,
and Energy and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health,
and Food Safety.
In 1963 Jerzy Buzek graduated from the
Mechanics and Energy Division of the Silesian Technical University
in Gliwice, specializing in chemical engineering. He became a scientist
in the Chemical Engineering Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences
in Gliwice (Instytut Inzynierii Chemicznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk
w Gliwicach). Since 1997 he has
been a professor of technical science. He is also an honorary doctor
of the universities in Seoul and Dortmund.
In the 1980s Dr. Buzek was an activist
of the democratic anti-communist movements, including the legal
(1980-81, and since 1989) and underground (1981-89) Solidarity trade
union and political movement in communist Poland. He was an active
organizer of the trade union’s regional and national underground
authorities. He was also the chairman of the national general meetings
when Solidarity was allowed to act legally.
Jerzy Buzek was a member of the experts
team of Solidarity Electoral Action (Akcja Wyborcza Solidarnosc,
AWS) and co-author of AWS’s economic program. In the 1997 elections
he became a member of Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament,
and soon was appointed the prime minister of Poland (for this time
he suspended his Solidarity trade union membership). In 1999 he
became the chairman of the AWS Social Movement (Ruch Spoleczny AWS)
and in 2001 the chairman of the whole AWS coalition.
Dr. Buzek is also a substitute delegate
to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. Since 2002
Dr. Buzek has been Deputy Rector for Didactics of Polonia University
in Czestochowa and professor in the Mechanical Division of the Technical
University of Opole in Opole (Wydzial Mechaniczny Politechniki Opolskiej).
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