Maciej Musiał (politician)

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Maciej Musiał
Maciej Musiał in 2004
Chief of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland
In office June 2000 – 19 October 2001
Preceded by	Jerzy Widzyk
Succeeded by	Marek Wagner
Voivode of the Greater Poland Voivodeship
In office 1 January 1999 – 22 June 2001
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Stanisław Tamm
Voivode of the Poznań Voivodeship
In office 1997 – 31 December 1998
Preceded by	Włodzimierz Łęcki
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Personal details
Born	(1952-01-22) 22 January 1952 Poznań, Poland
Political party	Solidarity Electoral Action
Alma mater	Adam Mickiewicz University

Maciej Wincenty Musiał (born 22 January 1952) is a Polish politician and physicist. He was the Chief of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland from 2000 to 2001, the voivode of the Greater Poland Voivodeship from 1999 to 2001, and the voivode of the Poznań Voivodeship from 1997 to 1998.

Biography

Maciej Musiał was born on 22 January 1952 in Poznań, Poland. In 1973, he graduated from the Faculty of Physics at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. From 1975 to 1990, he worked in the Wood Technology Institute in Poznań.

In 1880 he joined the Solidarity trade union. In 1981, following the enactment of the martial law in Poland, he was one of the organisers of its provisional board of the Greater Poland Region, and in 1989 became the regional deputy chairperson. The same year he was also the director of the Poznań division of the Solidarity Citizens' Committee, during the 1989 parliamentary election.

He was the director of the voivodeship office in Poznań from 1990 to 1996, the voivode of the Poznań Voivodeship from 1997 to 1998, and the voivode of the Greater Poland Voivodeship from 1999 to 2000. From June 2000 to October 2001 he was the chief of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland under the cabinet of Jerzy Buzek.

Later, he thought at the Higher School of Banking in Poznań, and was the board and general director of the Konin Coal Mine from 2006 to 2008.

Awards and decorations

• Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011)
• Cross of Freedom and Solidarity (2019)
• Title Distinguished to the City of Poznań (2020)