Tadeusz Iwiński Politician

Tadeusz Iwiński (pronounced [taˈdɛuʂ iˈviɲski]; born October 28, 1944 in Piastów) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 9734 votes in 35 Olsztyn district, candidating from Democratic Left Alliance list.He was also a member of Sejm 1991-1993, Sejm 1993-1997, Sejm 1997-2001, and Sejm 2001-2005, and a long-standing senior member of the soviet-ruled Polish United Workers Party (1967-1990).In 1968 he obtained MSc in Chemistry (industrial chemistry) from the Warsaw University of Technology, later studied at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science of the University of Warsaw, in 1973 became PhD in International Affairs. In 1981, during the Marshal Law introduced by the Jaruzelski, he received the degree of the assistant professor at the Higher School of Social Science run by the Central Committee of the communist Polish United Workers Party (Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Społecznych KC PZPR). 1977-1978 he was a Fulbright Scholar (at the Harvard University) and got another scholarship from International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) in 1988 (scholar at the University of California, Berkeley). In the 80s he was a scholar at the UN University in Tokyo, after coming back to Poland he taught at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, in 1999 became a professor. Iwiński participated in several science and political institutions of African, Asian and Oceanian affairs and studies. He was a member of The Committee on Political Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He currently sits as member of the AWEPA Governing Council.