Minister, Member of the Council of Ministers, Coordinator of Special Services – Tomasz Siemoniak

Born on July 2, 1967, in Wałbrzych. Polish politician and economist.

Graduate of the Foreign Trade Faculty at the Warsaw School of Economics. He was a scholarship holder at the University of Duisburg. In the 1990s, he was active in the Liberal Democratic Congress and Freedom Union. From 1994 to 1996, he worked for Polish Television, including as Director of Channel One. From 1998 to 2000, he served as Director of the Press and Information Office at the Ministry of National Defence. Beginning in 2002, he also served as Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Polish Press Agency.

Between 1998 and 2000, he was a councilor for the Warsaw-Centre municipality. From December 2000 to mid-2002, he served as Deputy Mayor of Warsaw. From 2002 to 2006, he was a member of the management board of Polish Radio, and until 2007, he held the office of Deputy Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship.

In November 2007, he was appointed Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, and in 2011, became Minister of National Defence in Donald Tusk’s government. In September 2014, under Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz, he also assumed the role of Deputy Prime Minister.

Since 2015, he has served as a Member of the Polish Parliament. On December 13, 2023, he was appointed Minister – Member of the Council of Ministers and Coordinator of Special Services. In May 2024, he additionally assumed the post of Minister of the Interior and Administration. Since July 2025, he has served as Minister, Member of the Council of Ministers, and Coordinator of Special Services.