Adam Gierek

Adam Gierek ( born April 17, 1938 in Zwartberg, Belgium) is a Polish politician and Member of Parliament for the list SLD -UP, which belongs to the Group of the Party of European Socialists (PES ). He is the son of Edward Gierek, who was from 1970 to 1980 chief of the Polish United Workers' Party.

Adam Gierek studied engineering and received his doctorate in 1965. Starting in 1972, he worked as a professor at the Silesian Technical University in Gliwice. The area of his scientific activity was the powder metallurgy. Since 1973 he is also a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 1982-1989 he was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Dresden.

2001 Gierek was elected to the Polish Senate, where he served until 2004. He was here a member of the Committee on Science, Education and Sports, and later in the legislative and judicial committee and the Committee for Environmental Protection. After Poland's EU accession in 2004, Gierek was elected to the European Parliament, where he was a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. In the European elections in 2009 was his re-election for the constituency of Katowice on the list of SLD.

EU Parliament period 2009-2014

In this period Gierek is a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and in the Delegation to the EU - Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. Deputy is Gierek in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.