Adam Bodnar

Adam Piotr Bodnar (born 6 January 1977) is a Polish lawyer, educator, human rights activist and politician who currently serves as Minister of Justice.

His Ukrainian father, as a child, was forcibly displaced from a village near Sanok to north-west Poland in Operation Vistula.

[4] In 2006, he received a PhD degree from the University of Warsaw on the basis of his dissertation entitled Multi-level Citizenship in the European Constitutional Sphere.

In 2011 he was awarded with the Tolerance Prize by the Polish LGBT organizations and in 2013 he received a scholarship within the scope of German Marshall Memorial Fellowship programme.

[4] During his tenure he brought a number of local governments to court for their introduction of the controversial LGBT-free zones,[9] which met with criticism from the ruling conservative Law and Justice party.

[10] In 2018, he was awarded the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize for the promotion of the fundamental human rights of intellectual and political freedom.

[17] In September 2020, he was awarded the French Order of Legion of Honour for guarding the civic rights and values in Poland.