- Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski
Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski (
November 6 ,1966 inWałbrzych ,Poland ) is a Polishpolitician and aMember of the European Parliament . He is a member of theLeague of Polish Families , which is a part of the Independence/Democracy Group in theEuropean Parliament .He is vice-chairman of the delegation to the EU-
Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a member of theCommittee on Agriculture and Rural Development . He is a substitute on theCommittee on Legal Affairs . Prior to becoming a Member of the European Parliament, he was a member of thePolish Parliament from1997 to2001 .Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski graduated from the
Kraków School of Education in1990 with amaster's degree in history and from the Rzeszów branch of Marie Curie Skłodowska University in1998 with a master's degree in law. He received adoctorate in2003 from the National Defence Academy inWarsaw . He was taught at Primary School No. 16 inPrzemyśl from1991 to1996 and was the head of that school in 1996 and1997 . In2002 and2003 he was a lecturer at the Higher National Vocational School inJarosław and a teacher for a group of schools inPrzemyśl with a department for integration of the disabled. From 2003 to2005 he was director of the Przemyśl Regional Centre for Culture, Education and Science.From
1986 until2001 he was a member of theIndependent Polish Confederation , or "Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej (KPN)" in Polish. During that time he was the head of his section and a member of the Political Council. From 2002 to 2005 he was a member of the League of Polish Families, a member of the League's provincial bureau, and a member of the League's Political Council. As a member of the Polish Parliament between 1997 and 2001, he was a Parliament Secretary, a member of theNational Defence Committee , and a member of theCommittee for Liaison with Poles Abroad .External links
* [http://www.zapalowski.eu Official site]
* [http://www.europarl.eu.int/members/expert/groupAndCountry/view.do?partNumber=2&country=PL&language=EN&id=33946 European Parliament biography]
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