Minister Cimoszewicz graduated from the Warsaw University Law Faculty in 1972 and has been awarded honorary doctorates from two US universities, Appalachian State University and the University of South Carolina, as well as from Odessa University in the Ukraine.

Between 1972 and 1985 he worked as a research associate and then assistant professor at Warsaw University. He also was a farm owner before entering politics in 1989. He was Prime Minister of Poland between 1996 and 1997. He was Minister for foreign affairs between 2001 and 2004. Since 2006, Minister Cimoszewicz has taught at Warsaw University and Vistula University in Warsaw.

As a member of Poland's parliament (Sejm), he was deputy chairman of the Committee on National and Ethnic Minorities and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He was instrumental in drawing up and adopting the constitution for the Republic of Poland, among many other government responsibilities.

Minister Cimoszewicz has a deep interest in human rights, especially about Jan Karski, the World War II underground hero who was among the first to warn the West about the Holocaust as it was underway. He will speak about the relevance of Jan Karski's story to today and about how social media platforms might have impacted the atrocities of World War II had they been available in that era.

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