Piotr Michał Łukasiewicz (born 1 September 1954 in Warsaw) is a Polish sociologist, civil servant, manager, and head of the Ministry of Culture and Art.

Biography

A graduate of the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

, he obtained a doctoral degree with a specialization in the sociology of everyday life. In 1978–1994 he was a member of the editorial board of the independent political quarterly ''Krytyka''. Until 1992 he worked at the

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk) is a scientific Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, based in the Palace of Technology in Warsaw. Its p ...

. Later, for two years he was the undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Culture and Art. From July 1992 to February 1993, he was a minister in the government of

Hanna Suchocka Hanna Stanisława Suchocka (; born 3 April 1946) is a Polish political figure, lawyer, professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Chair of the Constitutional Law Department, former First Vice-President and Honorary President of the ...

as the head of the Ministry of Culture and Art. From 1994 to 2008 he worked in the advertising agency McCann-Erickson (including as a strategic director). Then he became an employee of Millward Brown SMG/KRC, taking the position of director. In 2011, President Bronisław Komorowski awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 2016, he was awarded the

Cross of Freedom and Solidarity The Cross of Freedom and Solidarity (''Krzyż Wolności i Solidarności'') was established on 5 August 2010, to honor members of the democratic opposition in Poland who between the years 1956 and 1989 were killed, seriously wounded or injured, arr ...

by President Andrzej Duda.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lukasiewicz, Piotr 1954 births Living people Polish sociologists University of Warsaw alumni Recipients of Cross of Freedom and Solidarity