Lena Kolarska-Bobińska

Lena Kolarska-Bobińska
Minister of Science and Higher Education
In office
3 December 2013  16 November 2015
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
Ewa Kopacz
Preceded byBarbara Kudrycka
Succeeded byJarosław Gowin
Personal details
Born (1947-12-03) 3 December 1947
Prague, Czechoslovakia
(now Czech Republic)
Political partyCivic Platform
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Polish Academy of Sciences

Professor Lena Barbara Kolarska-Bobińska (born 3 December 1947 in Prague) is a Polish sociologist, academic and politician who served as the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education from 2013 to 2015.

In order to take the appointment, Kolarska-Bobińska resigned as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), where she represented the Lublin region from the Civic Platform Party list from 2009.