Krzysztof Kwiatkowski

Krzysztof Kwiatkowski (born 14 May 1971, in Zgierz) is a Polish lawyer, politician and government official who served as the Minister of Justice of Poland in Cabinet of Donald Tusk from 2009 until 2011, Public Prosecutor General from 2009 until 2010, and as the President of the Supreme Audit Office (NIK) from 2013 until 2019. He was also a member of Senate (from Civic Platform) from 2007 until 2011.

Krzysztof Kwiatkowski
Kwiatkowski in 2018
6th President of the Supreme Audit Office
In office
27 August 2013 – 30 August 2019
PresidentBronisław Komorowski
Andrzej Duda
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
Ewa Kopacz
Beata Szydło
Mateusz Morawiecki
Vice PresidentWojciech Misiąg
Marian Cichosz
Wojciech Kutyła
Jacek Uczkiewicz
Mieczysław Łuczak
Ewa Polkowska
Preceded byJacek Jezierski
Succeeded byMarian Banaś
Minister of Justice
In office
14 October 2009 – 18 November 2011
PresidentLech Kaczyński
Bronisław Komorowski (Acting)
Bogdan Borusewicz (Acting)
Grzegorz Schetyna (Acting)
Bronisław Komorowski
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
Preceded byAndrzej Czuma
Succeeded byJarosław Gowin
Public Prosecutor General
In office
14 October 2009 – 31 March 2010
NationalEdward Zalewski
Chief MilitaryKrzysztof Parulski
Preceded byAndrzej Czuma
Succeeded byAndrzej Seremet
Member of the Senate
Assumed office
12 November 2019
Constituency24 — Łódź
In office
5 November 2007 – 8 November 2011
Constituency24 — Łódź
Member of the Sejm
In office
8 November 2011 – 9 August 2013
Constituency9 — Łódź
Personal details
Born
Krzysztof Kwiatkowski

(1971-05-14) 14 May 1971
Zgierz, Poland
Political partySolidarity Electoral Action (1997-2001)
Civic Platform (2004–2013)
Independent (2013–2019)
Independent Senators Circle (2019–present)
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
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Krzysztof Kwiatkowski at the age of 17 joined the Federation of Fighting Youth. He began his studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Łódź. His education was interrupted due to cancer. Kwiatkowski graduated with the Master of Law and Administration degree at Warsaw University. He had been actively participating at Independent Students’ Association as a member of the national board.

From 1997 until 2001 he held the position of the personal secretary of the Prime Minister of Poland, Jerzy Buzek. From 2004 until 2013 he was a member of Civic Platform. Kwiatkowski was also a national board member of Polish Paralympic Committee.

On 14 October 2009 he had been appointed by the president Lech Kaczyński for the position of the Minister of Justice and the Public Prosecutor General in the first Cabinet of Donald Tusk. On 11th of April 2011 he became a member of Parliamentary Committee for the investigation of the Tu-154M crash in Smolensk after the Smolensk air disaster which occurred on 10th of April 2010.

During parliamentary elections in 2011 Kwiatkowski was a candidate of Civic Platform to Sejm. He gained the mandate after reaching 68 814 votes.

On 26 July 2013 he was appointed by Sejm for the position of the President of the Supreme Audit Office. In the same month he resigned from his membership in Civic Platform. On 19 August 2019 he handed his resignation from the position due to the participation in parliamentary elections in the same year. Officially, his term of office ended on 30th of August 2019.


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