Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Lena Kolarska-Bobińska

Polish academic and politician

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1947

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Profession: politician, journalist, sociologist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Lena Kolarska-Bobińska

  • Professor Lena Barbara Kolarska-Bobinska (born 3 December 1947 in Prague) is a Polish sociologist, academic and political figure.
  • Most recently, she served as the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education from 2013 to 2015. In order to take the appointment, she resigned as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), where she represented the Lublin region from the Civic Platform Party list from 2009. She is a graduate of the Sociology Department of the University of Warsaw, as well as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University and the Business School of Carnegie Mellon University.
  • She also holds a Doctorate (dr.
  • hab.)(1974) and the title of Professor from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), where she was head of the Department of Economics and Politics until 1991.
  • From 1991 to 1997 she was director of CBOS, Poland's largest public opinion research centre.
  • From 1997 until July 2009, she has been the director of the Institute of Public Affairs, Poland, an independent, non-partisan public policy think tank, stepping down upon her election to the European Parliament. Kolarska-Bobinska has written over 300 books and articles.
  • She has been a lecturer at universities in Poland and abroad.
  • She often comments on political and social developments for Polish and international media.
  • She is a regular columnist for the Polish newspaper "Gazeta Wyborcza" and was until 2009, a regular columnist for the French journal Les Échos. Kolarska-Bobinska is a member of many Polish and international associations and advisory boards.
  • She was a member of the Economic Council of President Lech Walesa (1992–1995), adviser of the Chief Negotiator for Poland's accession to the EU (1998–2001), and a member of President Aleksander Kwasniewski's Reflection Group (2001–2005).
  • Lena Kolarska-Bobinskla endorses the idea of a Federal Europe by signing the manifesto of the Spinelli Group. She is married to Krzysztof Bobinski who is the president of Unia & Polska, a pro-European think-tank in Warsaw and former Warsaw correspondent of the Financial Times (1976–2000).
  • They have two children.
  • She is fluent in Polish, English and Spanish.

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