Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski

Who is Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski?

Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski is a Polish politician and a Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the League of Polish Families, which is a part of the Independence/Democracy Group in the European Parliament.

He is vice-chairman of the delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. He is a substitute on the Committee on Legal Affairs. Prior to becoming a Member of the European Parliament, he was a member of the Polish Parliament from 1997 to 2001.

Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski graduated from the Kraków School of Education in 1990 with a master's degree in history and from the Rzeszów branch of Marie Curie Skłodowska University in 1998 with a master's degree in law. He received a doctorate in 2003 from the National Defence Academy in Warsaw. He was taught at Primary School No. 16 in Przemyśl from 1991 to 1996 and was the head of that school in 1996 and 1997. In 2002 and 2003 he was a lecturer at the Higher National Vocational School in Jarosław and a teacher for a group of schools in Przemyśl with a department for integration of the disabled. From 2003 to 2005 he was director of the Przemyśl Regional Centre for Culture, Education and Science.