Bogdan Klich

Bogdan Klich


Minister of National Defense of Poland 12th Minister of National Defense of the Third Republic of Poland
In office 16 November 2007 – 2 August 2011
President	Lech Kaczyński Bronisław Komorowski
Prime Minister	Donald Tusk
Preceded by	Aleksander Szczygło
Succeeded by	Tomasz Siemoniak
Personal details
Born	(1960-05-06) 6 May 1960 Kraków, Poland
Political party	Civic Platform

Bogdan Klich during 66th sitting of the Senate (2014)

With Robert Gates in the Pentagon (2010)

Bogdan Adam Klich ['bɔɡdan klʲix] (born on 8 May 1960 in Kraków) is a former Minister of National Defence of Poland. Bogdan Klich was interned in 1981 during the martial law set by the communist regime. Until 16 November 2007 he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Lesser Poland Voivodeship & Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship with the Civic Platform, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. Senator since November 2011. Lecturer at the Department of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University since 2002. Lecturer at the Cracow University of Economics since the academic year 2013/2014. Author of numerous publications concerning foreign policy and international security.

Education

1991–1995: Doctoral studies, Department of Historical Philosophy
since 1997: President of the Institute of Strategic Studies
2001–2004: Member of Parliament of the Republic of Poland, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, member of the Committee on National Defence
1989–1999: Advisor to the Chief Negotiator of the Republic of Poland with the European Union
1999–2000: Deputy Minister for National Defence in the Republic of Poland
2003–2004: Observer to the EP
2001–2004: Polish representative and member of the Policy Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
2004–2007: Member of the EP
2007– 2011: Minister for National Defence in the Republic of Poland^[1]
since 2011 Senator
Member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London
Lecturer at the Centre for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University

↑ "New minister of national defence appointed". Polish Premier. 2 August 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2012.

Klich, Bogdan; zu Guttenberg, Karl-Theodor (2014-03-07). "Disrupting Putin's Game Plan". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 2014-03-24.

The First Cabinet of Donald Tusk

Original members	Elżbieta Bieńkowska Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski Zbigniew Derdziuk Mirosław Drzewiecki Jolanta Fedak Cezary Grabarczyk Aleksander Grad Katarzyna Hall Bogdan Klich Ewa Kopacz Barbara Kudrycka Maciej Nowicki Waldemar Pawlak Jacek Rostowski Marek Sawicki Grzegorz Schetyna Radosław Sikorski Donald Tusk Bogdan Zdrojewski

Joined later	Michał Boni Andrzej Czuma Adam Giersz Krzysztof Kwiatkowski Jerzy Miller Andrzej Kraszewski Tomasz Siemoniak

Ministers of National Defence of Poland

Piotr Kołodziejczyk Jan Parys Janusz Onyszkiewicz Piotr Kołodziejczyk Zbigniew Okoński Stanisław Dobrzański Janusz Onyszkiewicz Bronisław Komorowski Jerzy Szmajdziński Radosław Sikorski Aleksander Szczygło Bogdan Klich Tomasz Siemoniak Antoni Macierewicz

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 47662578 LCCN: no2003029625 GND: 123170486

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