Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz (born 4 December 1969) is a Polish politician and biology academic, who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) during the eighth term from 2014 till 2019 representing Greater Poland. She is a member of the Civic Platform, part of the European People's Party.[1]
Dr Agnieszka Kozlowska-Rajewicz | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 1 July 2014 | |
| Constituency | Greater Poland |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 December 1969 Kętrzyn, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland |
| Political party |  Polish:Civic Platform  EU:European People's Party |
Education and early career
editKozłowska-Rajewicz received a Master's degree in biology with a specialisation in human biology from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 1994. She subsequently undertook postgraduate study in public relations at the Higher School of Management and Banking before completing her doctorate in human biology in 1998 at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Academic roles
editKozłowska-Rajewicz was an Assistant Professor, Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań from 1998 until 2004. From 2002 until 2006 she was Chair of the Polish Anthropological Branch in Poznań. From 2005 until 2011 she was Assistant Professor, Faculty of Educational Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University and Head of the Laboratory of Environmental Education, Poznań.
She has also authored or co-authored several biology textbooks. Since 2016 she has been a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Educational Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Political career
editKozłowska-Rajewicz first entered politics in 2006 as a member of the Poznań County District Council. She served for three years as Secretary of State in the Prime Minister's Chancellery as Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment. She also served as a member of the Council for the Prevention of Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.[2]
She was elected as a member of the European Parliament in 2014.
Parliamentary service
edit- Member, Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (2014–)
- Member, Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (2014–)
- Member, Delegation for relations with Belarus (2014–)
- Member, Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2014–)
References
edit- ^ "Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA-RAJEWICZ - History of parliamentary service - MEPs - European Parliament". Europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
- ^ "European People's Party - Agnieszka Kozlowska-Rajewicz". Believeinpeople.epp.eu. Retrieved 10 September 2017.