Czesław Siekierski

Czesław Siekierski
Czesław Siekierski in 2023
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 December 2023
Prime Minister	Donald Tusk
Preceded by	Anna Gembicka
Member of the Sejm
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 August 2019
In office 20 October 1997 – 19 July 2004
Member of the European Parliament
In office 20 July 2004 – 1 July 2019
Constituency	Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie
Personal details
Born	Czesław Adam Siekierski (1952-10-08) 8 October 1952 Stopnica, Poland
Political party	Polish People's Party

Czesław Adam Siekierski (born 8 October 1952) is a Polish politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), between 2004 and 2019, for the Lesser Poland Voivodship & Swietokrzyskie Voivodship with the Polish People's Party, part of the European People's Party. On 7 July 2014, Czesław Siekierski was elected Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

Siekierski is a member of the Conference of Committee Chairs and Delegation for relations with Canada and a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China.

Education

• 1976: Master's in Engineering
• 1986: Doctor of Economic-Agricultural Studies

Career

• since 1976: Lecturer at the Warsaw Agricultural University
• 1994-1998: Director of the Foundation of Assistance Programmes for Agriculture (FAPA)
• 1971-1977: Chairman of the Council of the University Union of Polish Students
• 1981-1982: Head of the Chief Organising Section of the United Peasants' Party (ZSL)
• 1999-2002: Secretary to the Chief Executive Committee of the Polish Peasants' Party (PSL)
• 1986-1990: Regional councillor on the National Warsaw-Mokotów Council
• 2001-2003: Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
• 1997-2004: Member of Parliament of the Polish Republic
• 1997-2001: Vice-Chairman of the Economic Committee
• 2003-2004: Observer to the EP
• since 1978: Active member of the Association of Engineers and Agricultural Technicians (since 1977) and of the Polish Economic Society

Decorations

• 1997: Knight's Cross of the Order of Poland Reborn

See also

• 2004 European Parliament election in Poland

External links

• Official website
• Personal profile of Czesław Siekierski in the European Parliament's database of members