Jan Szyszko

Jan Szyszko
Member of the Sejm
Assumed office
25 September 2005
Constituency 20 – Warsaw II
Minister of Environment
Assumed office
November 16, 2015
In office
16 November 2007  October 31, 2005
In office
October 31, 1997  October 19, 1999
Personal details
Born 1944 (age 7172)
Nationality Polish
Political party Law and Justice
The Rock of the Ecologists in Darłowo

Jan Szyszko (born 19 April 1944 in Stara Miłosna, now a part of Warsaw) is a Polish forester, university teacher (professor of forestry), politician, and the current Minister of Environment in the cabinet of Beata Szydło (since 2015). He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 7042 votes in the 20th Warsaw district, as a candidate on the Law and Justice list. He served as Minister of the Environment in the cabinets of Jerzy Buzek, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński (1997-1999 and 2005-2007). The Pontifical Academy of Sciences recognized him with the 2008 Ettore Majorana Award.[1] He is an honorary citizen of Krościenko nad Dunajcem and of Wieluń.

Footnotes

  1. "Były polski minister środowiska uhonorowany w Watykanie". wiadomosci.wp.pl. Grupa Wirtualna Polska. 17 December 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2016.

See also

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