From Prof. Jerzy Buzek
A Polish engeneer, academic lecturer, politician, the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland, and President of the European Parliament. Whilst President of the European Parliament, on 30 March 2011, he was awarded an honorary fellowship of the IChemE at a meeting of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) in Brussels, Belgium.
Jerzy Buzek was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001. He has been a member of the European Parliament, and he was elected as President of the European Parliament on July 14 2009.
Jerzy Buzek is a Polish engeneer, academic lecturer and politician. He graduated from the Mechanics-and-Energy Division of the Silesian University of Technology, specialising in chemical engineering. He became a scientist in the Chemical Engineering Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1997 he has been a professor of technical science. He is also an honorary doctor of the universities in Seoul and Dortmund. From 1997 to 2001, Buzek was a coalition Prime Minster of Poland.