Radosław Sikorski
Radosław Sikorski | |
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Sikorski in 2024 | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| Assumed office 13 December 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Donald Tusk |
| Preceded by | Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk |
| In office 16 November 2007 – 22 September 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Donald Tusk |
| Preceded by | Anna Fotyga |
| Succeeded by | Grzegorz Schetyna |
| Member of the European Parliament for Poland | |
| In office 2 July 2019 – 12 December 2023 | |
| Marshal of the Sejm | |
| In office 24 September 2014 – 23 June 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Ewa Kopacz |
| Succeeded by | Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska |
| Minister of National Defence | |
| In office 31 October 2005 – 7 February 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Preceded by | Jerzy Szmajdziński |
| Succeeded by | Aleksander Szczygło |
| Member of the Sejm | |
| In office 5 November 2007 – 12 November 2015 | |
| Parliamentary group | Civic Platform |
| Constituency | Bydgoszcz |
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 20 October 2005 – 5 November 2007 | |
| Parliamentary group | Law and Justice |
| Constituency | Bydgoszcz |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Radosław Tomasz Sikorski 23 February 1963 Bydgoszcz, Poland |
| Citizenship | Poland (since 1963) United Kingdom (1987–2006) |
| Political party | Civic Platform (since 2007) Civic Coalition (since 2018) |
| Other political affiliations | Law and Justice (2005–2007) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Pembroke College, Oxford (BA) |
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Radosław Tomasz Sikorski ([raˈdɔswaf ɕiˈkɔrskʲi] ⓘ; born 23 February 1963), also known as Radek Sikorski, is a Polish politician, journalist and statesman who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland since 2023, previously holding the office between 2007 and 2014. He was a Member of the European Parliament between 2019 and 2023. Earlier he was Marshal of the Sejm from 2014 to 2015. He previously served as Deputy Minister of National Defence (1992) in Jan Olszewski's cabinet, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1998–2001) in Jerzy Buzek's cabinet and Minister of National Defence (2005–2007) in the cabinets of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński.
Graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford, Sikorski worked as a journalist for The Observer and The Spectator between 1986 and 1989. He was a war correspondent in Afghanistan in 1986, then in Angola in 1989. Member of the key Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group, Sikorski was also part of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute between 2003 and 2005. In 2012, he was included on the list of Top 100 Global Thinkers 2012 published by the Foreign Policy magazine. In 2015, Sikorski became a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University. In 2025 he became an Honorary Fellow at the Pembroke College, his alma mater. He is a Senior Network Member at the European Leadership Network (ELN). He is a member of the Civic Platform, in which he is seen as being part of the party's right wing.