Aleksandra Maria Dulkiewicz (; born 10 July 1979) is a Polish lawyer and the city mayor of

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

since 11 March 2019.

Biography

In 1994, she graduated fro
The Primary School No. 50
named after

Emilia Plater Countess Emilia Broel-Plater ( lt, Emilija Pliaterytė; 13 November 1806 – 23 December 1831) was a Polish–Lithuanian noblewoman and revolutionary from the lands of the partitioned Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Raised in a patriotic tra ...

. In 1999 she graduated from the III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Bohaterów Westerplatte w Gdańsku (a high school). In 2006 she graduated from the University of Gdańsk in law. From 2004 to 2005 she studied at the faculty of Law of

University of Salzburg The University of Salzburg (german: Universität Salzburg), also known as the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (''Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg'', PLUS), is an Austrian public university in Salzburg, Salzburg municipality, Salzburg (state ...

. She acted in the Association of Young Conservatives and the Conservative People's Party. In 1995 she participated in the mayor campaign of Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz. Since 2000, she has worked in the Gdansk AREOPAG organisation. In 2006 she was assistant of the mayor of Gdansk Paweł Adamowicz. She was working in the European Solidarity Centre in the 2009–2014 period and in the Gdansk Economic Development Agency in the 2014–2017 period. She also participated in the preparation of

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. In 2010 and 2014 she was elected as a city councillor in Gdańsk, being a candidate 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 ...

party, in 2014 she became the leader of the Civic Platform club in the municipal council. From 20 March 2017 to 14 January 2019, she was deputy city mayor of Gdańsk responsible for the economic policy. During the local elections in 2018, she was the campaign manager of Adamowicz (she suspended her membership in Civic Platform then, which later expired). In this election, she received re-election in the city council, being a candidate of the Committee Everything for Gdańsk. On 14 January 2019, after the murder of Adamowicz, she assumed the position of an acting city mayor of Gdańsk. On 15 January 2019, the Prime Minister

Mateusz Morawiecki Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki (; born 20 June 1968) is a Polish economist, historian and politician who has served as prime minister of Poland since 2017. A member of Law and Justice (PiS), he previously served in the cabinet of prime minister Beata ...

confirmed that she would continue as the acting city mayor until the election of a new one. On 22 January 2019, she ran for the mayoralty of the city of Gdańsk in the early elections held on 3 March 2019, and was elected with the 82% of the votes. She started her term on 11 March 2019, as first woman on this post.

Personal life

Dulkiewicz is a single mother with a daughter named Zofia (born 2008). She is a

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