Member of Polish Parliament, Member of The Parliamentary Committee on Digitization, Innovations and New Technologies. Secretary of State for European Affairs (2014-2015); Minister of Administration and Digitisation in Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Cabinet (2013-2014). In 2009-2013, he was a Member of the European Parliament where he dealt with the implementation of EU Treaties, the EU budget, the protection of privacy and the European Digital Agenda. In 2004 he received a Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw’s Institute of International Relations in the Department of Journalism and Political Sciences. In 1991-1996 he studied concurrently at the Department of Journalism and Political Sciences and at the English Department. In 2002 he received a scholarship from the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris and in 1996 from the Oxford University. He went to school in the United States (Cranbrook-Kingswood High School) and in Australia (Marcellin College in Sydney). Rafał Trzaskowski holds a doctorate in political science and lectures on European affairs at universities.