Bogdan Klich

Bogdan Adam Klich ['bɔɡdan klʲix] ⓘ (born on 8 May 1960 in Kraków) is a Polish politician, diplomat, and former Minister of National Defence of Poland.

[2] Also under Klich's leadership, Poland and the United States signed a status of forces agreement (SOFA) that paved the way for the stationing of U.S. troops on Polish territory.

In July 2011, Klich resigned after an official investigation into the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash which killed President Lech Kaczyński and all 95 others on board, concluded that mistakes by the military pilots were the primary cause of the disaster.

He serves on the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy and on the Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World; in this capacity, he is also the Assembly's rapporteur on Morocco.

[7] Since 2015, Klich has been serving as a member of the European Commission's High-level Group of Personalities on Defence Research, chaired by Elżbieta Bieńkowska.

Bogdan Klich during 66th sitting of the Senate (2014)
Klich with US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at the Pentagon (2010)