Tomasz Siemoniak

He was born on July 2, 1967 in Wałbrzych. He graduated from Secondary School No. 2. Hugona Kołłątaj in Wałbrzych and the Faculty of Foreign Trade of the Warsaw School of Economics.

In the 1990s, he was active in the Liberal Democratic Congress and the Freedom Union.

From 1994 to 1996 he was employed at Telewizja Polska, including as director of Program 1. In 1997, he coordinated the Media and Democracy program at the Institute of Public Affairs.

In the years 1998-2000 he served as director of the Press and Information Office at the Ministry of National Defense.

From 2002, he also served as vice-chairman of the supervisory board of the Polish Press Agency.

In the years 1998-2000 he was a councilor of the Warszawa-Centrum commune.

From December 2000 to July 2002, he was vice-president of Warsaw. In the period 2002-2006 he sat on the management board of Polish Radio, then until 2007 he was the deputy marshal of the Masovian Voivodeship.

On November 26, 2007, he was appointed Secretary of State at the Ministry of Interior and Administration.

On August 2, 2011, he was appointed by the President of the Republic of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski, as Minister of National Defense in Donald Tusk's government. He held this position until November 16, 2015 and was therefore the longest-serving Minister of National Defense after 1989. Additionally, on September 22, 2014, he took over the office of deputy prime minister in Ewa Kopacz's government.

In 2015, he ran in the parliamentary elections from the Wałbrzych constituency. Receiving 30,786 votes, he was elected to the Sejm of the 8th term. He continued to work in the Sejm of the Republic of Poland until 2023 and was elected for another term.

Married, has a daughter and a son.