Anna Fotyga
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Anna Fotyga MEP |
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| Chair of the European Parliament Security and Defence Subcommittee | |
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Assumed office 7 July 2014 |
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| Preceded by | New position |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 13 June 2004 |
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| Constituency | Poland |
| Chief of the Chancellery of the President | |
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In office 29 November 2007 – 20 August 2008 |
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| President | Lech Kaczyński |
| Preceded by | Robert Draba (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Piotr Kownacki |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 9 May 2006 – 15 November 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | Stefan Meller |
| Succeeded by | Radosław Sikorski |
| Personal details | |
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Anna Elżbieta Fotyga 12 January 1957 Lębork, Poland |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Political party |
 Polish:Law and Justice  EU:ERC |
| Spouse(s) | Ryszard Fotyga |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Anna Elżbieta Fotyga ['anːa fɔˈtɨɡa] née Kawecka (born 12 January 1957 in Lębork) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament from Poland. She has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, in the successive cabinets of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński from (2006-2007) and Chief of the Chancellery of the President (2007-2008).
Fotyga is a graduate of the University of Gdańsk and the Danish School of Public Administration. She also served postgraduate internships at the Department of Labor of the United States, Cornell University in New York and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
In 1981, and again after 1989, she acted as Head of the Foreign Office of the Solidarity headquarters in Gdańsk, and was a close associate of Lech Kaczyński. In 2000, Fotyga served as a foreign affairs adviser under then Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek. Subsequently, she was Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board of Social Security Administration (Zakład Ubezpieczen Spolecznych, ZUS) with special expertise in International Labour Organization (Międzynarodowa Organizacja Pracy) and the World Bank. From 2002 to 2004, she was Deputy Mayor of Gdańsk.
Fotyga garnered 25,994 votes (the second highest in the region) in the 2004 European parliamentary elections as a candidate of the Law and Justice (PiS) party in the Pomeranian Voivodship.
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