Michał Kamiński

Deputy Marshal of the Tenth Term Senate (since 12 November 2019) Senator of the Tenth Term Senate Sejm Deputy of the Third, Fourth and Eight Term Member of the European Parliament of the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Term Michał Tomasz Kamiński was born on March 28, 1972 in Warsaw. He is a graduate of Johann Wolfgang Goethe XLIX High School in Warsaw, the Warsaw University Department of International Relations (BA in 2008) and the Warsaw Academy of International Relations and American Studies (MA in 2014). He started his public career in the 1990s as a journalist and parliamentary reporter. Then, he became the assistant to Sejm Marshal Wiesław Chrzanowski. During 1995 presidential election campaign he served as the press officer at Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz’s election staff. Between 2007 and 2009, he served as the spokesperson for the President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński. In 2015, he was appointed Secretary of State at the Prime Minister’s Chancellery. In 1997, he was elected a deputy to the Sejm of the Third Term from the Łomża constituency as a member of the Solidarity Electoral Action coalition. In 2001, he was elected to the Sejm for the second time, in the Białystok constituency, as a representative of the Law and Justice party. Between May 1, 2005 to August 6, 2007 he served as a Member of the European Parliament as a representative of Warsaw. For the duration of this parliamentary term, he resigned from work for President Lech Kaczyński. In 2009 he was reelected to the European Parliament and became the chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists group which included British Tories. In 2015, he was appointed the Head of the Government Information Center in the rank of the Secretary of State. In the election for the Eight Term Sejm held the same year, he won a deputy seat for the third time, running as a representative of the Civic Platform party. During the term he became the Board Member of the Union of European Democrats (UED). As the party representative, he was one of the co-founders of the federative parliamentary group of the UED and the Polish People’s Party and was a member of its presidium. In the 2019 election he ran for the Tenth Term Senate from the lists of the Polish People’s Party, in the 41st constituency near Warsaw, gathering 176,496 votes, which earned him a Senator’s seat. On November 12, 2019, he was elected the Deputy Marshal of the Senate. He co-founded the State Thought Institute think-thank, co-authored the book “End of the Law and Justice” and authored a thriller “August 15”. In 1999, in a journalistic questionnaire, he was named the best public speaker in the Parliament. He was the director of radio stations in Łomża and Bydgoszcz. Privately, he is married to Anna Kamińska and has two daughters: Antonina and Anastazja. He loves animals, books and sports. He is fluent in Russian, English and German.

Polish politician