Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski

Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski (born 28 July 1964 in Kielce)^[1] is a Polish politician and lawyer, associate professor of law at the University of Łódź. 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).

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 (age 61) Kielce, Poland
Party	Law and Justice (2002–2017)
Spouse	Lidia Ujazdowska

Author of press publications, as well as the author, co-author and editor of books on cultural policy, politics of memory, political and constitutional issues, history of Polish conservatism and conservative thought. He has written for Rzeczpospolita, Gazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik, Wprost, Gazeta Polska, Gość Niedzielny, Nowe Państwo (pl) and Życie (pl). Ujazdowski was a member of the editorial board of Polityka Polska (1990–1991). He launched and edited Kwartalnik Konserwatywny. He is also the founder and director of the European Center for Constitutional Research (Europejskie Centrum Badań Ustrojowych) at the University of Łódź. In June 2021, he co-founded, with Marek Biernacki and others, the 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.^[2]

He was born into a family of attorneys: his father Kazimierz Mieczysław Ujazdowski, a Member of Parliament, acted for the defence in political trials during the martial law period, and his grandfather Kazimierz Cyprian Ujazdowski represented defendants during the Brest trials.

Ujazdowski is a member of Opus Dei.^[3]

See also

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