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Daniel Kawczynski

Daniel Kawczynski
MP
Daniel Kawczynski, Conservative MP (headshot, 2006).jpg
Kawczynski in January 2006.
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Wales
In office
11 September 2012 – 14 July 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Glyn Davies
Succeeded by David Morris
Member of Parliament
for Shrewsbury and Atcham
Assumed office
5 May 2005
Preceded by Paul Marsden
Majority 9,565 (17.7%)
Personal details
Born (1972-01-24) 24 January 1972 (age 45)
Warsaw, Poland
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Kate (m.2000–2011, div.)
Residence Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Alma mater University of Stirling
Profession Accounting Manager
Website Official Website

Daniel Robert Kawczynski (born 24 January 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Shrewsbury and Atcham in Shropshire, England. The first British MP born in Poland, he was raised in England from the age of seven.

He was a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and a parliamentary aide to the former Welsh Secretary David Jones. He is a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and in 2014 he was appointed as Special Advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron on Central and Eastern Europe and on Central and Eastern Europeans living in the United Kingdom.

Kawczynski came to England as a seven-year-old with his Polish parents. He was educated at St George's College, Weybridge, an independent Roman Catholic school in Surrey, followed by Birmingham Polytechnic and then the University of Stirling in Scotland, where he read Business Studies with Languages, and was President of the University Conservative Association in 1991.

Kawczynski worked in the business entertainment industry before he became an international account manager in the telecommunications industry, a position he held for ten years. Kawczynski first stood for Parliament in the 2001 general election for Ealing Southall and came a distant second with 18% of the vote.


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