Piotr Tadeusz Gliński (; born 20 April 1954) is a Polish sociologist, professor, university lecturer and politician. He served as president of the

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from 2005 to 2011. He was the nominee of

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for

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in 2012 and again in 2014. In the cabinet of

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, he served as the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. from 2015 to 2023. in the

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Early life and education

Piotr Tadeusz Gliński was born in

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on 20 April 1954. In 1973, he graduated from the Bolesław Prus High School in Warsaw. He studied at the Institute of Economic Sciences and the Institute of Sociology of the

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, earning a

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in 1978. He then completed doctoral studies in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the

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. In 1984, on the basis of ''Labor Economic Conditions Lifestyle: Urban Families in Poland in the Seventies'', written under the direction of Andrzej Siciński, he received a Ph.D. degree in humanities. He received his

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at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology in 1997 with a thesis entitled ''The Polish Greens: The Social Movement in Transition''.

Academic career

Professionally associated since the late 1970s with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the

, he has held various positions. From 1997 to 2005, Head of the Civil Society. He was a professor at the Institute of Sociology at the

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and head of the Department of Sociology at the University. He was awarded internships outside Poland, lecturing in European universities. His academic specialty was the study of social movements,

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and

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. He participated in the work of the Committee for Research and Forecasting Poland in 2000 and the Committee of Man and the Environment. He has been a consultant for national and international institutions, including the Polish ministries and the

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. In 1986, he co-organized the Section of Social Forecasting of the

. From 1995 to 1997 he was treasurer of the PSA, Vice-President of the organization, and from 2005 to 2011 he served as its President. In 1989 he became a member of the Social Ecological Institute, which he headed from 1997 to 2003. He was a founding member of the Society for the creation of the Mazury National Park. He is also a member of the

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. In 2003, he participated in the creation of the party

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, but due to its adoption of a leftist agenda, ultimately did not join. In 2008 Gliński received the title of professor of humanities.

Public life

On 1 October 2012,

announced Gliński as candidate for

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with a request for a

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against the government of

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. On 16 June 2014, Law and Justice filed a repeat request, again naming Gliński as a candidate for the office. Four days after the

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on 16 November he was nominated

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and Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the

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. He was appointed by

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as the Chairman of the Public Benefit Committee in 2017. He retained his Ministry after the October

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, by which

was elected Prime Minister.

Honours and Awards

Officer Cross of the

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(15 September 2011)

Family

Piotr Gliński is the younger brother of film director

Robert Gliński Robert Ignacy Gliński (born 17 April 1952 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the National Film School in Łódź. He won the Golden Lions at the Gdynia Film Festival in 1992 with his film '' Wszystko, co najw ...

Select publications

* ''Civil society in the making'' (red.), IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2006 * ''Człowiek-środowisko-zdrowie. Problemy polskie z prognostycznego punktu widzenia'' (red.), KPPRK PAN, Warszawa 1985 * ''Katastrofa smoleńska, Reakcje społeczne, polityczne i medialne'' (red.), IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2011 * ''Kulturowe aspekty struktury społecznej. Fundamenty, konstrukcje, fasady'' (red.), IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2010 * ''Polscy Zieloni. Ruch społeczny w okresie przemian'', IFiS PAN, Warszawa 1996 * ''Samoorganizacja społeczeństwa polskiego. III sektor i wspólnoty lokalne w jednoczącej się Europie'' (red.), IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2002 * ''Socjologia i Siciński. Style życia, społeczeństwo obywatelskie, studia nad przyszłością'' (red.), IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2009 * ''Społeczne aspekty ochrony i kształtowania środowiska w Polsce'', Wyd. SGGW-AR, Warszawa 1990 * ''Style działań organizacji pozarządowych w Polsce. Grupy interesu czy pożytku publicznego?'', IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2006 * ''Teorie wspólnotowe a praktyka społeczna. Obywatelskość, polityka, lokalność'' (red.), IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2005

References

External links

*
Curriculum vitae
on the website of the

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