Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski is a Polish politician and lawyer, associate professor of law at the University of Łódź. Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the governments of Jerzy Buzek, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński, deputy speaker of the Sejm of the fourth term. Member of the Sejm of the 1st and of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th term, Member of the European Parliament of the 8th term, senator of the 10th term.
Author of press publications, as well as the author, co-author and editor of books on cultural policy, politics of memory, political and constitutional issues, history of Polish conservatism and conservative thought. He has written for Rzeczpospolita, Gazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik, Wprost, Gazeta Polska, Gość Niedzielny, ' and '. Ujazdowski was a member of the editorial board of Polityka Polska. He launched and edited Kwartalnik Konserwatywny. He is also the founder and director of the European Center for Constitutional Research at the University of Łódź. In June 2021, he co-founded, with Marek Biernacki and others, the think tank Centrum Dobrego Państwa.
On 13 October 2022, Ujazdowski launched the Centre for Poland as a political party, which will be part of the Polish Coalition.
He was born into a family of attorneys: his father Kazimierz Mieczysław Ujazdowski, a Member of Parliament, acted for the defence in political trials during the martial law period, and his grandfather Kazimierz Cyprian Ujazdowski represented defendants during the Brest trials.
Ujazdowski is a member of Opus Dei.