About me

Born September 13th, 1976 in Gdansk, Poland. Since his early school years, he has been active in youth and sports organizations. In 1991 he started to attend the 5th High School in Gdansk.

In 1995 he went to the United States where he graduated from Glastonbury High School in Connecticut. In September that year he went to The College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts. In 2001 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.

In the same year he was employed as an analyst of media structures in the IT company whose business was focused on MediaMap software. After a 12-month internship, he moved to Indiana where he started to establish institutional contacts at the Hudson Institute. His main responsibilities included the cooperation with higher education institutions; the supervision of meetings and sittings in regard to the content; and the short analysis of the press and local authorities.

In December 2002 he returned to Poland and was employed at Lech Walesa’s office in Gdansk.

In 2005 he stood in elections in Gdansk’s constituency as a candidate of the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska). He won a parliamentary seat by 14,709 votes. During the 5th term of the Sejm (the lower house of parliament), he sat on the European Union Affairs Committee and the Foreign Affairs Commission.

In the early parliamentary election of 2007, he won a seat again by – this time – the number of 61,278 votes.
In June 2009 he stood in the European Parliament elections, achieving even higher score (73,968 votes) and winning a MEP seat.