Marek Tadeusz Zagórski (born August 6, 1967, in

Kamień Pomorski Kamień Pomorski (; ; or ''Kammin'') is a spa town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of north-western Poland, on the Baltic coast. It is the seat of an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Kamień County which lies approximately 63&n ...

, Poland) is a Polish politician and journalist. He served as a member of the

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(the lower house of the Polish parliament) in the IV, VIII, and IX terms.

Biography

Education and career

In 1993, he graduated from the Faculty of Humanities at the

University of Szczecin The University of Szczecin () is a public university in Szczecin, western Poland. It is the biggest university in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, West Pomerania, with 33,267 students and a staff of nearly 1,200. Faculties The university consists o ...

. In 1997, he completed a course in modern financial management at the French Institute of Management, and in 2001, he completed postgraduate studies in banking and finance at the

Warsaw University of Life Sciences The Warsaw University of Life Sciences (, SGGW) is the largest agricultural university in Poland, established in 1816 in Warsaw. It employs over 2,600 staff including over 1,200 academic educators. The University is since 2005 a member of the Eu ...

. From 1991 to 1993, he was the editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine "Punkt Widzenia." In 1993, he worked at the "Morze i Ziemia" Publishing House as the head of the distribution department. From 1993 to 1995, he was the editor-in-chief of the cable TV station TV Gryfnet in

Szczecin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ...

. From 1995 to 1998, he was the president of the Management Board of Pomorska Stacja Radiowa. In 1998, he worked at the City Hall in Szczecin as the plenipotentiary of the mayor. In 1999, he was the deputy director of a team at the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture. In 2005, he began working as the president of the Management Board of the commercial company "Poręczenia Kredytowe," and later, from 2009, he was the president of the Management Board of the European Rural Development Fund.

Political career

From 1993 to 1997, he was a member of the Conservative Party, and from 1997 to the Conservative People's Party. He led the political cabinet of Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Artur Balazs from 1999 to 2001. In the

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, he was elected as a member of parliament from the Białystok district on the

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list. He did not join the Civic Platform

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but became part of a parliamentary circle formed by the Conservative People's Party. He was an independent member of parliament from 2004 and did not seek re-election in 2005. In 2006, he became Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, resigning in 2007. He played a role in reactivating the Conservative People's Party in 2009 and became its president. He supported Bronisław Komorowski in the 2010 presidential elections and joined Law and Justice in 2014. In 2015, he was elected as a member of parliament from the

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district on the

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list and became Secretary of State in the Ministry of the Treasury. He later served as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Digital Affairs. In 2018, he was appointed Minister of Digital Affairs and successfully ran for re- election in 2019. He concluded his ministerial term in 2020 and served as Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister until 2021. He resigned from his parliamentary mandate in 2023 and became the president of the Management Board of the National Food Group in April of the same year.

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