Adam Daniel Rotfeld
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland 8th Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Third Republic of Poland |
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In office 5 January 2005 – 13 October 2005 |
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| President | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Prime Minister | Marek Belka |
| Preceded by | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz |
| Succeeded by | Stefan Meller |
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4 March 1938 Peremyshliany, then Second Polish Republic, now Ukraine |
| Political party | None |
| Profession | Diplomat, Academician |
Adam Daniel Rotfeld ['adam ˈdaɲɛl ˈrɔtfɛlt] (born 4 March 1938) is a Polish researcher, diplomat, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 5 January 2005 until 31 October 2005 when a change of government took place. He served earlier as the deputy foreign minister. While in that position, Rotfeld established the Warsaw Reflection Group on the UN Reform and the Transformation of the Euro-Atlantic Security Institutions, with participation from leading US and European experts and politicians.
From 1991 up to 2002 he served as Director of the (SIPRI) and in 1989–1991 project leader on Building a Cooperative Security System in and for Europe at SIPRI.
Rotfeld was born in Przemyślany near Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). He survived the Holocaust in the Univ Lavra, a monastery of the Studite Brethren. Rotfeld was married to Barbara Sikorska-Rotfeld (died in 2006) and has one daughter, Alicja, born in 1971.
Rotfeld studied international law and diplomacy in Warsaw (1955–1960). PhD dissertation on the right of self-determination of people in modern international law at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków defended in 1969. Later, Habilitation on European Security in Statu Nascendi. He was appointed professor at the Warsaw University by the President of Poland in 2001.
Since 1961, Rotfeld worked as researcher at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM, the acronym formed from the Polish name). Member of the UN Secretary General Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, its chair in 2008 (2006-2011); member of the NATO Expert Group on the New Strategic Concept of Alliance (2009-2010), and since 2010 Commissioner of the Euro-Atlantic Security Commission, member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
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