Brussels Forum Session: Eastern Flank in Front
Radosław Sikorski has served as Poland’s minister of foreign affairs since 2023. He held the same position previously (2007–2014). He has also served as Poland’s minister of defense (2005–2007), and speaker of the Sejm (2014–2015). From 2019 to 2023, he was a member of the European Parliament, sitting on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Security and Defence Subcommittee. He chaired the delegation for relations with the United States.
As Poland’s minister of foreign affairs, Sikorski launched, together with Carl Bildt, the EU’s Eastern Partnership. He also proposed and helped to establish the European Endowment for Democracy and the Solidarity Prize.
During the 2014 “Revolution of Dignity”, he headed an EU mission to Kyiv that ended the bloodshed on the Maidan.
Sikorski is a senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and has been listed among Foreign Policy magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers for “speaking the truth, even when it is not diplomatic”.
From 2002 to 2005, Sikorski was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, and the executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative.
He served as a war correspondent in Afghanistan and Angola from 1986 to 1989.
Sikorski is the author of several books, including Dust of the Saints: A Journey to Herat in Time of War, Full Circle: A Homecoming to Free Poland, The Polish House: An Intimate History of Poland, Poland Can Be Better: Behind the Scenes of Polish Diplomacy, and Poland: The State of the State.