Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski (born in 1964). A graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lodz. PhD of legal sciences, Associate Professor at the University of Lodz. Associated with the Department of Political and Law Doctrines. He deals with the history of Polish political thought, French constitutionalism and contemporary political issues. In 2019, he founded the European Center for Political System Research. Member of the Polish Society of Constitutional Law. Member of the Advisory Board of the European Network "Remembrance and Solidarity", chairman of the Programme Board of the "Remembrance and Future". Member of the Legal Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
In his youth, he was associated with the democratic opposition, he participated in the Young Poland Movement. In 1989, a member of the cabinet of minister Aleksander Hall in the Government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki. He was the minister of culture and national heritage twice (2000-2001 and 2005-2007). He co-created the policy of remembrance and established the Polish History Museum. As part of the campaign against the "Polish death camps" lie, he changed the name of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum to the former German-Nazi concentration and extermination camp.
Member of the Poland’s Parliament (the Sejm) of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th term of office, member of the European Parliament (2014-2019). Since the parliamentary elections in 2019, he has been a Senator of the Republic of Poland, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Emigration Affairs and Liaison with Poles Abroad.
Mentor in the Mentorship project: 11th edition, 2023/2024
Meeting place: Lodz; Warsaw
Number of mentees in this edition: 1
Language: Polish
Mentee support area:
- developing competences useful in public activities and work in administration
- preparation for scientific work