Bogdan Klich | |
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Minister of National Defense of Poland 12th Minister of National Defense of the Third Republic of Poland |
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In office 16 November 2007 – 2 August 2011 |
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President |
Lech Kaczyński Bronisław Komorowski |
Prime Minister | Donald Tusk |
Preceded by | Aleksander Szczygło |
Succeeded by | Tomasz Siemoniak |
Personal details | |
Born |
Kraków, Poland |
6 May 1960
Political party | Civic Platform |
Bogdan Adam Klich ['bɔɡdan klʲix] (born on 8 May 1960 in Kraków) is a former Minister of National Defence of Poland. Bogdan Klich was interned in 1981 during the martial law set by the communist regime. Until 16 November 2007 he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Lesser Poland Voivodeship & Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship with the Civic Platform, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. Senator since November 2011. Lecturer at the Department of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University since 2002. Lecturer at the Cracow University of Economics since the academic year 2013/2014. Author of numerous publications concerning foreign policy and international security.