Jan Szyszko
Jan Szyszko – (born on 19th April 1944 in Stara Miłośna, Poland) is a Polish forester, lecturer, professor of forest sciences, 1997-1999 Minister of the Environment, Natural Resources and Forestry in the government of Jerzy Buzek, in 2005-2007 Environment Minister in the governments Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński and a Member of Parliament (V, VI and VII term).
Political Career
Between 1987 and 1993, he was active at the National Council of the City and local government municipalities in Wesoła near Warsaw. He has been an activist of the Center Alliance since 1991, and since 1996 vice-president of the central administration of the party. In the presidential elections in 1995, he served as head of the national electoral committee of Adam Strzembosz. From 1997 to1999 he was the Minister of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry in the government of Jerzy Buzek. Then he served as Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. He was the attorney for the government and the president of the Climate Convention V Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Climate Change (1999-2000). Between 2001 and 2005 he was a member of the State Tribunal of the Law and Justice. He has been a member of Law and Justice since 2001. In the 2005 elections he was elected to Parliament.
From 2005 to 2007 he held the office of Minister of the Environment in the government of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and then Jarosław Kaczyński. Between these periods he was secretary of state in the Ministry of the Environment and head of the ministry. In the parliamentary elections in 2007 he was reelected to Parliament. He then became a member of the Committee on European Union Affairs and the Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Forestry. In the elections in 2011 he successfully applied for re-election.
Education
In 1966 he graduated from the Faculty of Forestry at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, where he subsequently obtained a doctoral degree in forestry. In 2001 he received the title of professor.
