Jacek Jaśkowiak (born 10 March 1964) is a Polish politician and entrepreneur. He is the current mayor of the city of

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint Joh ...

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, and a member of the

Civic Platform Civic Platform ( pl, Platforma Obywatelska, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a political party in Poland. It is currently led by Donald Tusk. It ...

political party.

Life and education

He graduated in law and administration from the

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in Poznań. He also completed

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in finance and

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. He received a GFPS-Poland scholarship and studied at the

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, Germany. As a student, Jaśkowiak was a member of the Rural Youth Union (Polish: ''Związek Młodzieży Wiejskiej''). In the 1990s, he started to pursue a career in business and worked as a sales director at Kulczyk Tradex – a company belonging to billionaire

Jan Kulczyk Jan Jerzy Kulczyk (24 June 1950 – 29 July 2015) was a Polish billionaire businessman. He was the founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding (headquartered in Warsaw) and an international investment house Kulczyk Investments (former name: Kulczyk Inves ...

. In 1997, he established his own firm specializing in

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. In the same year, he met

Jacek Kaczmarski Jacek Marcin Kaczmarski (22 March 1957 – 10 April 2004) was a Polish singer, songwriter, poet and author. Life He was the son of painter Anna Trojanowska-Kaczmarska, a Pole of Jewish background, and the artist Janusz Kaczmarski. Kaczmarski ...

and worked as his manager. In 2007 he became the CEO of the Jaśkowiak Sp. Z.o.o company providing accounting services to middle-sized foreign businesses. In 2012 and 2014, he was one of the organizers of the

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events in

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Political career

In the

2010 Polish local elections The 2010 Polish local elections were held in two parts, with its first round on 21 November and the second on 5 December. The first round included elections of deputies to provincial voivodeship sejmiks, as well for gmina and powiat councilors. ...

he unsuccessfully stood for office of the mayor of Poznań representing "My Poznaniacy" initiative gaining 7.16% of the votes. In 2013, he officially became a member of the

political party and in the 2014 Polish local elections he ran for the post of mayor of Poznań as a Civic Platform candidate. He received 21.46% of the votes in the first round and made it to the second round where he defeated the then-mayor of Poznań

Ryszard Grobelny Ryszard Grobelny (born 17 April 1963 in Poznań) is a Polish politician and economist, who was the Mayor of Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland from 1998 to 2014). Life and career He attended primary school no. 71 with a sporting profile ...

after 16 years of his mayorship in the city receiving 59.09% of the votes. In the

2018 Polish local elections The 2018 Polish local elections were held on October 21 for all 16 provincial (voivodeship, ''województwo'') assemblies, 380 county (''powiat'') councils, and 2477 commune (''gmina'') councils. There were also direct elections for commune heads (m ...

he was successfully re-elected as mayor of Poznań gaining 55.99% of the votes in the first round. In 2018, as the first mayor of Poznań in history, he provided honorary patronage over the

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Poznań Pride Week as well as the Poznań

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in which he personally participated.

Personal life

He married a

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Joanna Jaśkowiak. He has two children: Jarosław and Stanisław. His interests include cross-country skiing,

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and theatre, and loves to bike. Jaśkowiak is also an ardent promoter of the musical legacy of

with whom he collaborated in the past.

References

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