Zbigniew Kuźmiuk

{{Short description|Polish politician (born 1956)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Zbigniew Kuźmiuk

| nationality = Polish

| image = Zbigniew Kuźmiuk Sejm 2015.JPG

| imagesize = 220px

| alt =

| constituency_MP1 = Masovia

| parliament1 = European

| term_start1 = 1 July 2014

| term_end1 = 29 November 2023

| term_start2 = 20 July 2004

| term_end2 = 13 July 2009

| office3 = Member of the Sejm

| term_start3 = 19 October 2001

| term_end3 = 16 June 2004

| term_start4 = 8 November 2011

| term_end4 = 27 May 2014

| constituency4 = 17 – Radom

| party = United People's Party {{small|(1986–1989)}}
Polish People's Party {{small|(1989–2006)}}
Law and Justice {{small|(2009–)}}

| office5 = 1st Marshal of Masovian Voivodeship

| term_start5 = 1 January 1999

| term_end5 = 17 October 2001

| predecessor5 =

| successor5 = Adam Struzik

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|09|19|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Komorowo, Poland

| death_date =

| death_place =

| alma_mater = Kielce University of Technology
Kazimierz Pułaski University
Warsaw School of Economics

| children = 3 (two sons and a daughter)

| spouse = Danuta Kuźmiuk

| awards = File: POL Polonia Restituta Kawalerski BAR.svg

| signature = Zbigniew Kuźmiuk signature.svg

| website = {{URL|zbigniewkuzmiuk.pl}}

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Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk (born 19 September 1956 in Komorowo) is a Polish politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Masovian Voivodeship with the Law and Justice party from 2004 to 2009, and again between 2014 and 2023. He was a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets. Prior to 2006, Kuźmiuk was a leading member of the Polish People's Party.

Kuźmiuk was a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee. He resigned from the European Parliament in 2023 and was replaced by Rafał Romanowski.

Education

  • 1989: Master of Economics, Kielce University of Technology (1979), Doctor of Economics Warsaw School of Planning and Statistics (now the Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Lecturer at the Radom Polytechnic (since 1979), chairman of the production-service-trading company (PPHU) Teks SA

Career

  • 1990–94: and director PPHU Bakumar SA
  • 1994–96: Voivode of Radom
  • 1997: Minister, member of the Cabinet, Chairman of the State Centre for Strategic Studies
  • 1998–2001: Councillor of the Masovian Voivodeship, Marshal of the Masovian Voivodeship
  • 2001–04: Member of Parliament of the Republic of Poland, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Local Self-Government and Regional Policy, Chairman of the Polish People's Party (PSL) parliamentary party
  • 2003: Vice-Chairman of the Chief Executive Committee of the PSL (since March 2004), Vice-Chairman of the Masovian Voivodship Association of the PSL (since October

Decorations

  • Knight's Cross of the Order of Poland Reborn

See also