Bogdan Klich

Bogdan Klich
Minister of National Defence
In office
16 November 2007 – 2 August 2011
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
DeputyTomasz Siemoniak
Preceded byAleksander Szczygło
Succeeded byTomasz Siemoniak
Personal details
Born (1960-05-06) 6 May 1960 (age 64)
Kraków, Poland
Political partyCivic Platform
Awards
Signature
Bogdan Klich during 66th sitting of the Senate (2014)
Klich with US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at the Pentagon (2010)

Bogdan Adam Klich ['bɔɡdan klʲix] (born on 8 May 1960 in Kraków) is a former Minister of National Defence of Poland. Bogdan Klich was interned in 1981 during the martial law set by the communist regime. Until November 16, 2007, he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Lesser Poland Voivodeship & Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship with the Civic Platform, part of the European People's Party and he sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. Senator since November 2011. Since 2002, Klich has been a lecturer at the Department of European Studies at Jagiellonian University. Lecturer at the Cracow University of Economics since the academic year 2013/2014. The author of numerous publications concerning foreign policy and international security.