Biography
Paweł Kowal was born on 22 July 1975 in Rzeszów.
He attended Rev. S. Konarski Secondary School no 1 in Rzeszów between 1990-1994.
While at primary and secondary schools he was an active member of the Light-Life Movement.
In the years 1994-1998 he was a student of the Jagiellonian University’s History Department and a member as well as Vice-President (one of the functions held) of the Jagiellonian University History Students’ Activity Group.
He was studying at the Warsaw Collegium Invisibile under Professor Krystyna Kersten’s supervision from 1996 to 1998. Between 1996 and 1998 he was a member of the Polish Youth Council as well as President of the Jagiellonian Club in Kraków.
In 1998 and 1999 he held the function of a Director of ‘Poland versus Poles in the East. Searching for politics model’ programme at the Centre for Political Thought in Kraków.
Between 1998 and 2000 he worked at the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, one of his positions being the Head of the section in the International Politics Department of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery. His responsibilities comprised relations with Polish emigrants and Poles in the East as well as Prime Minister’s visits to the Eastern countries. Afterwards, in the years 2000 and 2001 he was a Director of International Relations and European Integration Departments of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
He permanently cooperated with the Centre for International Relations between 2001 and 2003, dealing predominantly with Eastern politics issues. In the years 2000-2002 he was running Off Gallery with Jan Ołdakowski.
In 2002 he stood as candidate in local self-government elections and became a Councillor for Ochota district in Warsaw (Warszawa). He performed the functions of Councillor and President of Ochota district Council in the capital city of Warsaw until 2005.
Between 2003 and 2005 he was a Director of the Mazovian Centre of Culture and Arts and co-created, among others, the concepts of such projects as: Mazovian Book Academy (Mazowiecka Akademia Książki), documenting folk arts in Mazovia Region. Simultaneously, he was a co-creator and performer of the Warsaw Uprising Museum concept.
Together with Jan Ołdakowski he prepared a concept of Western Lands Museum for Lower Silesia authorities in 2004-2005. In 2005 he became a Director of the City Council Press Office in Warsaw. He also co-created John Paul 2 Resource Centre in Warsaw, especially its scholarship programme.
In 2005 he stood as candidate in the Lower Chamber Parliament elections in Poland. He was elected from a constituency no 12 including, among others, such towns as Wadowice, Chrzanów, Oświęcim, Myślenice, Sucha Beskidzka. He was a Member of Parliament V Term of Office, where, in 2005 and 2006, he held the function of a Vice-President of Law and Justice Parliamentary Club (Klub Parlamentarny Prawa i Sprawiedliwości - PiS). He was also the Leader of the Lower House Commmission for Culture and Media as well as member of the Lower Chamber Foreign Affairs Commission (2005 – 2006).
Since July 2006 to November 2007 he worked as a Secretary of State at Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 2007 and 2008 he was advising the directors for European Solidarity Center in Gdańsk. He was again elected to the Lower Chamber of Polish Parliament from Chrzanów constituency with the total number of votes amounting to 26184 (year 2007). When holding an MP mandate he was a Vice-President of the Law and Justice Parliamentary Club; he is also a Vice-President of the Foreign Affairs Commission.
He has been a member of the Political Committee Law and Justice party since 2007.
In June 2009 he was elected a member of the European Parliament in the Małopolska- Świętokrzyskie constituency. In Brussels he sits on the Foreign Affairs Commission (AFET), the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy as well as Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE). Furthermore, he is a chairman of Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
He works at the Institute of the Political Studies (PAN), currently being on unpaid leave. He writes articles on Polish Eastern Policy, international affairs as well as cultural politics and history of the 20th century.
He runs lectures on Eastern Policy at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw as well as the University College of Tourism and Ecology in Sucha Beskidzka. He is also a member of the Council for the Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe in Wrocław.
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