Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski

Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski
Senate Chair of the Committee on Emigration and Liaison with Poles Abroad
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 November 2019
Deputy	Maria Koc (PiS) Janina Sagatowska (PiS) Wojciech Ziemniak (KO)
Preceded by	Janina Sagatowska
Minister of Culture and National Heritage
In office 31 October 2005 – 16 November 2007
President	Aleksander Kwaśniewski Lech Kaczyński
Prime Minister	Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Jarosław Kaczyński
Preceded by	Waldemar Dąbrowski
Succeeded by	Bogdan Zdrojewski
In office 16 March 2000 – 12 July 2001
President	Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Prime Minister	Jerzy Buzek
Preceded by	Andrzej Zakrzewski
Succeeded by	Andrzej Zieliński
Member of the Sejm
In office 20 October 1997 – 27 May 2014
Constituency	3 – Wrocław
In office 25 November 1991 – 31 May 1993
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 2014 – 1 July 2019
Member of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 November 2019
Preceded by	Barbara Borys-Damięcka
Constituency	44-Warsaw
Personal details
Born	(1964-07-28) 28 July 1964 Kielce, Poland
Political party	Law and Justice (2002–2017)
Spouse	Lidia Ujazdowska

Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski (born 28 July 1964 in Kielce) is a Polish politician and lawyer, associate professor of law at the University of Lodz. Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the governments of Jerzy Buzek (2000–2001), Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (2005–2006) and Jarosław Kaczyński (2006–2007), deputy speaker of the Sejm of the fourth term. Member of the Sejm of the 1st (1991–1993) and of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th term (1997–2014), Member of the European Parliament of the 8th term (2014–2019), senator of the 10th term (from 2019).

Author of press publications, as well as the author, co-author and editor of books devoted mainly to cultural and historical policy, political and constitutional issues as well as the history of Polish conservatism and conservative thought. He has published in Rzeczpospolita, Gazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik, Wprost, Gazeta Polska, Gość Niedzielny, Nowe Państwo and Życie. He was a member of the editorial board of Polityka Polska (1990-1991). Ujazdowski is also the founder and editor of the Kwartalnik Konserwatywny. Kazimierz Ujazdowski is also the founder and director of the Europejskie Centrum Badań Ustrojowych (European Center for Constitutional Research) at University of Łódź. In June 2021, Ujazdowski founded, together with, inter alia, Marek Biernacki, MP, think tank Centrum Dobrego Państwa.

On 13 October 2022, Ujazdowski launched the Centre for Poland as a political party, which will be part of the Polish Coalition.

Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski is the grandson of Kazimierz Cyprian Ujazdowski, an attorney from the interwar period, a defense attorney in political trials (including the Brest trials). Father - Kazimierz Mieczysław Ujazdowski - was a Member of Parliament, defended in political trials, among others during the martial law period.

See also

• Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007
• Przymierze Prawicy
• Koalicja Konserwatywna