Radoslaw Sikorski

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. He is also Chairman of the Committee on European Affairs and Vice-Chairman of the Civic Platform party. As Deputy Minister of National Defense in 1992, he initiated Poland’s NATO entry ambitions. He served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Honorary Chairman of the Foundation for Assistance to Poles in the East (1998-2001). He headed the students’ strike committee during the unrest in Bydgoszcz in March 1981. He was granted political asylum in Great Britain (1982-1989). He was a war correspondent in Afghanistan and Angola (1986-1989). He graduated from the University of Oxford with a B.A. and M.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE).