Anna El?bieta Fotyga n�e Kawecka is a Polish economist, politician, Member of the European Parliament and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, in the successive cabinets of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jaros?aw Kaczy?ski. She was Poland's first female to serve in the role Fotyga is a graduate of the University of Gda?sk and the Danish School of Public Administration. She also served postgraduate internships at the Department of Labor of the United States, Cornell University in New York and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In 1981, and again after 1989, she acted as Head of the Foreign Office of the Solidarity headquarters in Gda?sk, and was a close associate of Lech Kaczy?ski. In 2000, Fotyga served as a foreign affairs adviser under then Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek. Subsequently, she was Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board of Social Security Administration with special expertise in International Labour Organization and the World Bank. From 2002 to 2004, she was Deputy Mayor of Gda?sk. Fotyga garnered 25,994 votes in the 2004 European parliamentary elections as a candidate of the Law and Justice party in the Pomeranian Voivodship. 

January 12th, 1957 in L?bork (Age 67)