Julia Pitera

Julia Teresa Pitera, born Zakrzewska, ( born May 26, 1953 in Warsaw) is a Polish politician, Platforma Obywatelska ( Civic Platform ) and since 2007 Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland.

Life and political activity

She attended the general education school Bolesław the Brave ( Liceum Ogólnokształcące in. Bolesława Chrobrego ) in Warsaw and studied at the University of Warsaw. There, Julia Pitera graduated in 1977 with a master's degree in Polish Philology. During her studies she worked as a teacher at the Warsaw Polish Dabrowski High School. In 1981, she began as a staff member for the documentation of modern literature at the Instytut Badań Literackich (Institute of Literary Research ) of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( PAN). At the Academy was Julia Pitera 1989 their diploma as an employee for the scientific documentation at the institute she remained until after the political reforms in Poland and the beginning of the Third Polish Republic.

1991 was Julia Pitera assistant in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland and remained there until 1994. In 1994 she became head of the television program pytania o Polskę, which was shown weekly at TVP2. By his own admission she was not politically active until 1994. She had become a 1981 member of Solidarity, 1990-1991 Member of the Porozumienie Centrum (Centre Alliance) and from 1994 to 1998, Unia Polityki Realnej (Union for realpolitik ). With the latter, it was 1994 member of the Warsaw City Council. Without their work as a councilor abandon, she was in 1998 a member of Transparency International Poland, where it was between 1999 and 2001 Member of the Board and then to 2005 chairman of the board. 2001 Julia Pitera became a member of the Council for the supervision of the press freedom of the Polish Journalists Association. In 2002, Julia Pitera applied, unsuccessfully, for the post of Warsaw's city president. In 2005, she ended her membership of Transparency International and became a member of the Civic Platform and in the parliamentary elections in the same year she obtained a seat in the Sejm. This 2005 also ended its activities in the Warsaw City Council. The mandate for the Sejm they could defend in the early general elections in 2007. November 22, 2007 Julia Pitera was Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Julia Pitera is married and has a son.