# Jacek Protasiewicz > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jacek_Protasiewicz > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jacek_Protasiewicz.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek_Protasiewicz > Source revision: 1313538653 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Polish politician (born 1967)}} {{BLP sources|date=August 2021}} thumb|Jacek Protasiewicz (2023) '''Jacek Protasiewicz''' (born 5 June 1967 in [Brzeg](/source/Brzeg)) is a [Polish](/source/Politics_of_Poland) [politician](/source/politician). Graduated from [Wroclaw University](/source/Wroclaw_University) where in the 80s of 20th century was a leader of anti communist student organization (NZS). In 1995 was an international fellow at the [Kettering Foundation](/source/Kettering_Foundation) based in [Dayton](/source/Dayton), [Ohio](/source/Ohio). He was a local leader of a liberal party (KL-D) in 1994 and then the Union of Freedom - the party led by a first non-communist Prime Minister of Poland. In 2001 he was a cofounder and a local leader of [Civic Platform](/source/Civic_Platform) - a party led by [Donald Tusk](/source/Donald_Tusk) - later [Prime Minister of Poland](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Poland) and Head of the [European Council](/source/European_Council). First time elected to a [regional assembly](/source/Deliberative_assembly) in 1998 and then to the [Polish Parliament](/source/Polish_Parliament) in 2001. In 2004 he was elected to the [European Parliament](/source/European_Parliament) where he served as Chair of Delegation for Belarus (2007-2012) and as the Vice-President 2012-2014 in charge for relations with parliaments of [Eastern Partnership](/source/Eastern_Partnership) countries as well as with [NATO Parliamentary Assembly](/source/NATO_Parliamentary_Assembly). He was the Head of the presidential election campaign of [Donald Tusk](/source/Donald_Tusk) in 2005 and the Civic Platform election campaign in 2011. In 2015 elected again to [Polish Parliament](/source/Polish_Parliament) and re-elected in 2019. Nowadays he serves as a Deputy Head of the Polish Coalition caucus in [Polish Parliament](/source/Polish_Parliament) and member of Committee for European Union Affairs and Committee for [Public Finance](/source/Public_Finance). ==Education== * 1994: Graduate of the [University of Wrocław](/source/University_of_Wroc%C5%82aw) ==Career== * 1990-1992: Press spokesman for the Voivodship of Wrocław * 1992-1994: Member of the National Council and Chairman of the Wrocław branch of the Liberal-Democratic Congress (KLD) * 1994-1995: assistant to the Chairman of the Wrocław [City Council](/source/City_Council) * 1994-2000: Member of the National Council of the Freedom Union (UW) * 1997-2000: Chairman of the Wrocław region of the UW * 1998-2001: Chairman of the Committee on Tourism, Sport and Recreation (1998-2001) and the UW Union of Councillors in the Regional Council of the Voivodship of Lower Silesia * 1999-2001: director of the Bureau for the Promotion of the City and Cooperation with Other Countries, Office of the City of Wrocław (1996-2001) and press spokesman for the Wrocław City Council * 2000-2001: Member and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Polish Tourist Organisation * 2000-2002: Vice-Chairman of the Lower Silesian Tourist Organisation * 2001-2004: Member of Parliament of the Polish Republic * 2001: Member of the National Council of the Citizens' Platform (PO) * 2003-2004: [MEP](/source/Member_of_the_European_Parliament) - Observer in the EP (EPP-ED and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs * 2003: Chairman of the PO in [Wrocław](/source/Wroc%C5%82aw) {{see also|European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)}} == References == ==External links== * {{official website}} * {{MEP}} * {{Declaration of financial interests of the 6th term|23782_12-07-2004.PDF|pl}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Protasiewicz, Jacek}} Category:1967 births Category:Living people Category:MEPs for Poland 2004 Category:Civic Platform MEPs Category:MEPs for Poland 2004–2009 Category:MEPs for Poland 2009–2014 Category:Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 {{Poland-Sejm-2019-politician-stub}} {{Poland-MEP-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jacek Protasiewicz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek_Protasiewicz) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek_Protasiewicz?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.