Radosław Sikorski
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 24 July 2025 Serving with Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and Krzysztof Gawkowski | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Donald Tusk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Jarosław Kaczyński | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 13 December 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Donald Tusk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 16 November 2007 – 22 September 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Donald Tusk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Anna Fotyga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Grzegorz Schetyna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister of National Defence | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 31 October 2005 – 7 February 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Jarosław Kaczyński | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Jerzy Szmajdziński | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Aleksander Szczygło | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Radosław Tomasz Sikorski 23 February 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | Poland (since 1963) United Kingdom (1987–2006) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Civic Coalition (party) (since 2025) Civic Platform (2007–2025) Law and Justice (2005–2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | Civic Coalition (coalition) (since 2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Pembroke College, Oxford (BA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Radosław Tomasz "Radek" Sikorski (born 23 February 1963) is a Polish politician, journalist and statesman who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2023, previously holding the office between 2007 and 2014, since 2025 also serving as Deputy Prime Minister. He was a Member of the European Parliament between 2019 and 2023. Earlier he was Marshal of the Sejm from 2014 to 2015. He previously served as Deputy Minister of National Defence in 1992 in Jan Olszewski's cabinet, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1998 and 2001 in Jerzy Buzek's cabinet and Minister of National Defence between 2005 and 2007 in the cabinets of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński.
Graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford, Sikorski worked as a journalist for The Observer and The Spectator between 1986 and 1989. He was a war correspondent in Afghanistan in 1986, then in Angola in 1989. Being a Bilderberg Group regular, he is on its key Steering Committee; Sikorski was also part of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute between 2003 and 2005. In 2012, he was included on the list of Top 100 Global Thinkers 2012 published by the Foreign Policy magazine. In 2015, Sikorski became a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University. In 2025 he became an Honorary Fellow at the Pembroke College, his alma mater. He is a Senior Network Member at the European Leadership Network (ELN). He is a member of the Civic Coalition (formerly Civic Platform), in which he is seen as being part of the party's right wing.