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Radosław Sikorski

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Radosław Sikorski has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland since December 2023 and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard. As Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, he launched, together with Carl Bildt, the EU’s Eastern Partnership. He proposed and helped to establish the European Endowment for Democracy and the Solidarity Prize. Previously, Mr Sikorski served as a Member of the European Parliament (2019-23), where he sat on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Security and Defence Subcommittee. He chaired the Delegation for Relations with the United States. Prior to this, Mr Sikorski was the Speaker of the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament (2014-15), the Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007-14), and the Minister of Defence (2005-07). From 2002-05, Mr Sikorski was a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, and the Executive Director of the New Atlantic Initiative. From 1986 to 1989, Mr Sikorski served as a War Correspondent in Afghanistan and Angola. Mr Sikorski was listed among the Top 100 Global Thinkers by the Foreign Policy Magazine for “speaking the truth, even when it is not diplomatic,” and is the author of several books, including Dust of the Saints: a Journey to Herat in Time of War, Full circle. A homecoming to free Poland, The Polish House: an Intimate History of Poland, Communism-freed Zone. An Interview, Poland Can Be Better. Behind the Scenes of Polish Diplomacy, and Poland. The State of the State.
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Updated: April 9, 2025