Background
ONYSZKIEWICZ, Janusz was born on December 18, 1937 in Lwow, Poland. Parents: Stanislaw Onyszkiewicz and Franciszka Onyszkiewicz (née Cencora).
ONYSZKIEWICZ, Janusz was born on December 18, 1937 in Lwow, Poland. Parents: Stanislaw Onyszkiewicz and Franciszka Onyszkiewicz (née Cencora).
Doctor of Mathematics, Warsaw University. Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, Warsaw University, 1967. Master of Science in Mathematics, Warsaw University.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Leeds, England.
Assistant later, Senior Assistant Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, Mathematics Institute, Warsaw University 1963-1967, lecturer 1967-1975, now Senior lecturer. Lecturer, University of Leeds 1976-1979. Lectured at many universities abroad.
Deputy Chairman Board at Warsaw University September-October 1980. Adviser to Interfactory Founding Committee of Solidarity Industry Self-governing Trade Union-Mazovia Region, subsequently. Executive Commission, Solidarity Trade Union.
Attached to Lech Walesa since 1988. Participant Round Table debates. Deputy to Sejm (Pari.) since 1989.
Deputy Minister of National Defence. Executive Committee of Interparl. Union since 1989; mountaineer and speleologist, participant mountaineering expeditions in Himalayas, Hindukush, Karakorum, Pamir.
Co-worker Robotnik newspaper, since 1979.
Member Council Foundation Education for Democracy, Warsaw, 1991. Deputy to Parliament, 1989—2001. Member executive committee Inter-Paliamentary Union.
Vice chairman Polish group, 1989—1991. Minister National Defense, 1992—1993, 1997—2000. President Polish Parliament Delaware to North Atlantic Assembly, 1991—1993, Democratic Party, since 2005.
Member Union for Freedom and Union for Freedom National Council, since 1996. Vice president Asia and Pacific Council, since 1996. Member Foreign Policy Council, since 1996, Euro-Atlantic Association, since 1994, president, 1994—1998.
Chairman defense affairs committee Council of Ministers, 1997—2000. Chairman board International Centre Democratic Transition, Budapest, Hungary, since 2005. Board directors Institute East-West Security Studies, New York, 1991—1994.
Commissioner Center Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 1991. Vice president European Liberals, Democrats, and Reformers. Member Solidarity (national spokesman, member national executive committee 1981-1989), Polish Mountaineering Federation (president).
Honorary member numerous Polish and foreign caving and alpine clubs.
Climbing, caring, reading. Foreign policy, defence policy.
Spouse Joanna Onyszkiewicz (née Jaraczewska), 1983. Children: Witoseawa. Stanislaw, Wanda, Danuta.