Beata Szydło
| Beata Szydło | |
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| 16th Prime Minister of Poland | |
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Assumed office 16 November 2015 |
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| President | Andrzej Duda |
| Deputy |
Piotr Gliński Mateusz Morawiecki Jarosław Gowin |
| Preceded by | Ewa Kopacz |
| Member of the Polish Parliament for Chrzanów | |
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Assumed office 19 October 2005 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Beata Maria Kusińska 15 April 1963 Oświęcim, Poland |
| Political party | Law and Justice |
| Spouse(s) | Edward Szydło |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Jagiellonian University |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | Official website |
Beata Maria Szydło ([bɛˈata ˈmarja ˈʂɨdwɔ]; née Kusińska [kuˈɕiɲska]; 15 April 1963) is the current Prime Minister of Poland. Following the 2015 parliamentary election, she formed her cabinet, which took office on 16 November 2015. Before being appointed Prime Minister, she successfully led the presidential campaign of Andrzej Duda, the 2015 presidential nominee of Law and Justice party. She is vice-chairman of the Law and Justice party. She is Poland's third female prime minister after Hanna Suchocka and Ewa Kopacz and the first to succeed another woman (Kopacz) in office.
Szydło was born in Oświęcim and raised near Brzeszcze, where her father was a miner. She graduated from Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1989 where she completed studies at the Department of Ethnography. In the years 1989 – 1995, she was a PhD student at the Philosophy and History Faculty of that university. In 1997, she completed post-graduate studies for managers of culture at Warsaw School of Economics, whereas in 2001 at Kraków University of Economics - management of local government in the European Union.
Szydło was elected mayor of Gmina Brzeszcze at the age of 35. In 2004, she participated in International Visitor Leadership Program. In September 2005, she was elected to the Sejm, the lower house of the Parliament of the Republic of Poland receiving 14,499 votes in 12 Chrzanów district, as a candidate of the conservative Law and Justice party. She was elected member of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th parliament of the Republic of Poland. She was appointed vice-chairman of the Law and Justice party On 24 July 2010, and later in September 2014, she succeeded Stanisław Kostrzewski as the treasurer of the Law and Justice party.
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