Tomasz Siemoniak

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Tomasz Siemoniak

Minister of National Defence
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 August 2011
Prime Minister	Donald Tusk
Preceded by	Bogdan Klich
Personal details
Born	(1967-07-02) 2 July 1967
Nationality	Polish
Political party	Civic Platform
Alma mater	Warsaw School of Economics

Tomasz Siemoniak (born 2 July 1967) is Poland's Minister of National Defence.

Early life and education

Siemoniak was born on 2 July 1967.^[1] He graduated from the Foreign Trade Faculty of the Warsaw School of Economics.^[1] During his university education, he was the head of the Independent Student Association (NZS).^[1]

Career

Siemoniak began his career at the Polish public broadcasting unit, Telewizja Polska, as the director of the office for field branches and general director of Channel 1. His tenure lasted from 1994 to 1996.^[1] He served as the director of the press and information office at the ministry of national defence from 1998 to 2000. During this period he was also a member of the Warsaw city centre district council and deputy chairman of the culture committee of the council. He was appointed deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the Polish News Agency in 1998, and his tenure ended in 2002.^[1] From December 2000 to July 2002 he was also deputy mayor of Warsaw. He was named as a board member of Polskie Radio SA (public radio company) in 2002 and served there until 2006.^[2] Then he was appointed deputy marshal in the marshal’s office of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship (November 2006 - November 2007).^[3] From November 2007 to August 2011, he held the post of secretary of state in the ministry of interior and administration. Siemoniak is a member of the Civic Platform headed by Donald Tusk.^[4]

On 2 August 2011, he was appointed minister of national defense in the cabinet led by the prime minister Donald Tusk.^[2] Siemoniak replaced Bogdan Klich in the post.^[5] After the elections in October 2011, Tusk reformed the cabinet and Siemoniak retained his post as defense minister.^[4]

Activities and views

In August 2012, Siemoniak declared that Poland is planning to form its own missile defense system with an estimated budget of between $3 billion and $6 billion.^[6]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Minister of National Defence". Ministry of National Defence. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
↑ 2.0 2.1 "Poland Names New Defense Minister". Defense News. 2 August 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
↑ "Composition of Government". KPRM. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
↑ 4.0 4.1 Gardner, Andrew (19 November 2011). "Poland's new government wins support". European Voice. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
↑ "New minister of national defence appointed". Polish Premier. 2 August 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
↑ Benites, Jorge (12 August 2012). "Poland wants to build missile defense system with France, Germany". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 8 September 2012.

Political offices
Preceded by Bogdan Klich 2007-2011	Poland's Minister of National Defence 2011- present	Succeeded by Incumbent

v t e The First Cabinet of Donald Tusk

Original members	Elżbieta Bieńkowska Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski Zbigniew Derdziuk Mirosław Drzewiecki Jolanta Fedak Cezary Grabarczyk Aleksander Grad Katarzyna Hall Bogdan Klich Ewa Kopacz Barbara Kudrycka Maciej Nowicki Waldemar Pawlak Jacek Rostowski Marek Sawicki Grzegorz Schetyna Radosław Sikorski Donald Tusk Bogdan Zdrojewski

Joined later	Michał Boni Andrzej Czuma Adam Giersz Krzysztof Kwiatkowski Jerzy Miller Andrzej Kraszewski Tomasz Siemoniak

v t e The Second Cabinet of Donald Tusk

Original members	Tomasz Arabski Bartosz Arłukowicz Elżbieta Bieńkowska Michał Boni Mikołaj Budzanowski Jacek Cichocki Jarosław Gowin Marcin Korolec Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz Barbara Kudrycka Waldemar Pawlak Joanna Mucha Sławomir Nowak Jacek Rostowski Marek Sawicki Tomasz Siemoniak Radosław Sikorski Krystyna Szumilas Donald Tusk Bogdan Zdrojewski

Joined later	Marek Biernacki Stanisław Kalemba Włodzimierz Karpiński Janusz Piechociński Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz

Persondata
Name	Siemoniak, Tomasz
Alternative names
Short description	Polish politician
Date of birth	2 July 1967
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

v t e Ministers of National Defence of Poland

Piotr Kołodziejczyk Jan Parys Janusz Onyszkiewicz Piotr Kołodziejczyk Zbigniew Okoński Stanisław Dobrzański Janusz Onyszkiewicz Bronisław Komorowski Jerzy Szmajdziński Radosław Sikorski Aleksander Szczygło Bogdan Klich Tomasz Siemoniak

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