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Radosław Sikorski, Keynote Address

Event time: 
Friday, April 16, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
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Speaker/Performer: 
Radosław Sikorski, Member of the European Parliament
Event description: 

Radosław Sikorski, Member of the European Parliament, will provide the keynote address of the second annual international conference of the European Studies Graduate Fellows, “Europe Today: Challenges & Opportunities” of Yale University
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Bio: Radosław (Radek) Sikorski is a Member of the European Parliament for his native Kuyavian-Pomeranian region of Poland. Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA) and the Subcommittee on Security and Defense (SEDE), he also chairs the Delegation for relations with the United States. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and a Distinguished Statesman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Formerly, he served as Poland’s Minister of Defense (2005-2007), Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007-2014) and Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (2014-2015). Together with Carl Bildt, he initiated the EU’s Eastern Partnership. He also proposed establishing the European Endowment for Democracy and the Solidarity Prize. In 2014, at the height of mass protests against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, he led the EU mission to Kiev, which stopped the bloodshed on the Maidan. In 2012 Foreign Policy magazine named him one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers “for telling the truth, even when it’s not diplomatic.”
Sikorski is the author of several books, including Dust of the Saints: A Journey to Herat in Time of War, The Polish House: An Intimate History of Poland, Communism-Free Zone. An Interview, and Poland Can Be Better. Behind the Scenes of Polish Diplomacy.