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Piotr Aleksander Naimski (born 2 February 1951) is a Polish politician and academic who is a Member of the
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. He previously served as the Deputy Minister of Economy and the Head of the Office for State Protection.


Biography

Piotr Naimski was born on 2 February 1951. In 1968, he graduated from the Tadeusz Rejtan High School in
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. He then studied at the
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. In 1981 he received a
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in
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. From 1976 to 1980, Naimski worked at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the
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. He was a researcher at the
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from 1981 to 1984. From 1996 to 2009, Naimski was on faculty at the Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu – National-Louis University, where he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Political Studies. Since 1964, Naimski was part of the "Black One"
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. Naimski took part in organizing assistance to oppressed workers in Radom and Ursus following the June 1976 protests. He was active in the Workers' Defence Committee, working closely with Antoni Macierewicz. In 1980-1981, he served on the board of the Center for Social Research of
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. In 1981, Naimski was on scholarship in
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, where he co-organized assistance for Solidarity. He worked at ''Głos'' and ''Wiadomości Dnia'' after returning to Warsaw in July 1984. Naimski was the Director of ''Głos'' Publishing from 1989 to 1992, and subsequently worked at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was the Head of the Office for State Protection from 1 February 1992 to 5 June 1992. From 1992 to 1996, Naimski was the President of the Atlantic Club. From 1999 to 2001 he was national security adviser in the office of
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. From 23 November 2005 to 5 November 2007 Naimski was the Deputy Minister of Economy, and a key person for the
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gasline from Norway to Poland. In 2008, he became an advisor to the Head of the National Security Bureau and a member of the Energy Security Team in the Chancellery of the President. Following the death of
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, Naimski resigned from these functions. Later, Naimski became an advisor at New Direction, a
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created by the
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. In the 2011 parliamentary elections, he successfully ran for the
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, contesting from the
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list in
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. He was reelected in 2015.


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Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Naimski, Piotr 1951 births Living people University of Warsaw alumni National Louis University faculty Law and Justice politicians Polish anti-communists Politicians from Warsaw Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015 Members of the Workers' Defence Committee