Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz

Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz


8th Prime Minister of Poland
In office 7 February 1996 – 31 October 1997
President	Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Deputy	Roman Jagieliński Grzegorz Kołodko Mirosław Pietrewicz Jarosław Kalinowski
Preceded by	Józef Oleksy
Succeeded by	Jerzy Buzek
Marshal of the Sejm 7th Marshal of the Sejm of The Third Republic of Poland
In office 5 January 2005 – 18 October 2005
President	Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Prime Minister	Marek Belka
Preceded by	Józef Oleksy
Succeeded by	Marek Jurek
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland 7th Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Third Republic of Poland
In office 19 October 2001 – 5 January 2005
President	Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Prime Minister	Leszek Miller, Marek Belka
Preceded by	Władysław Bartoszewski
Succeeded by	Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland
In office 26 October 1993 – 1 March 1995
President	Lech Wałęsa
Prime Minister	Waldemar Pawlak
Preceded by	Jan Piątkowski
Succeeded by	Jerzy Jaskiernia

Personal details
Born	(1950-09-13) 13 September 1950 (age 67) Warsaw, People's Republic of Poland
Political party	Polish United Workers' Party (1968-1990) Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland (1990-1999) Democratic Left Alliance (1999-2005) Independent (2007-2015)
Spouse(s)	Barbara Cimoszewicz
Profession	Lawyer
Awards

Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (Polish pronunciation: [vwɔˈd͡ʑimjɛʂ t͡ɕimɔˈʂɛvit͡ʂ] ( listen), born 13 September 1950 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish politician.

Cimoszewicz was a member of the left-wing Democratic Left Alliance, the Prime Minister of Poland from 1996 to late 1997, the Foreign Minister of Poland in the governments of Leszek Miller (2001–2004) and Marek Belka (2004–2005), the speaker of the Sejm (lower chamber of the Polish parliament) from January to October 2005 and the leftist candidate in the Polish presidential election of 1990 (receiving 9 percent of the vote) and of 2005 (he withdrew before the elections and promised to abandon politics).

Along with Leszek Miller, he signed the Accession Treaty that paved way to Polish membership in the European Union.

Cimoszewicz returned to politics during the 2007 parliamentary election, when he won a Senate seat as an independent candidate. He kept his senator's seat until the end of term in 2015. Since 2015 Cimoszewicz is workstream leader for the Agency for the Modernisation of Ukraine (AMU), where he is responsible for combatting corruption.