Paweł Piskorski

Paweł Piskorski
43rd Mayor of Warsaw
In office
30 March 1999  14 January 2002
Preceded byMarcin Święcicki
Succeeded byWojciech Kozak
Member of the European Parliament
for Poland
In office
June 2004  June 2009
Personal details
Born (1968-02-25) 25 February 1968
Warsaw, People's Republic of Poland
Political partyDemocratic Party
Civic Platform
Freedom Union
Other political
affiliations
ALDE
SpouseAleksandra Piskorska
ProfessionHistorian

Paweł Bartłomiej Piskorski (born 25 February 1968 in Warsaw) is a former Polish politician.

He was Mayor of Warsaw from 30 March 1999 to 14 January 2002. In 1997 he was elected to the Sejm from the Freedom Union electoral list, and in 2001, after participating in a secession from that party, he successfully ran under the Civic Platform banner. In 2004 he was the Secretary General of Civic Platform. He has been elected Member of the European Parliament in 2004. On 26 April 2006 he was excluded from the Civic Platform. Since February 2009 he has been the chairman of the Democratic Party.