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{{Short description|Polish academician and diplomat (born 1938)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| image               = Adam Rotfeld 2017.jpg
| caption             = Rotfeld in 2017
| order               = [[Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
| term_start          = 5 January 2005
| term_end            = 31 October 2005
| primeminister       = [[Marek Belka]]
| predecessor         = [[Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz]]
| successor           = [[Stefan Meller]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1938|3|4|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Peremyshliany|Przemyślany]], Poland (now Peremyshliany, Ukraine)
| party               = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|Barbara Sikorska|<!--unknown-->|2006|end=died}}
| children            = 1
| profession          = Diplomat, [[academician]]
}}
[[File:Msc 2005-Sunday-IQ1Y9191.jpg|thumb|right|Rotfeld with US Senator [[Hillary Clinton]] and German Minister of Foreign Affairs [[Joschka Fischer]]]]
'''Adam Daniel Rotfeld''' ({{IPA|pl|'adam ˈdaɲɛl ˈrɔtfɛlt|audio=Pl-Adam Daniel Rotfeld.ogg}}; born 4 March 1938) is a Polish academician and diplomat who was [[Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland]] from 5 January to 31 October 2005. He served earlier as deputy foreign minister. While in that position, Rotfeld established the Warsaw Reflection Group on UN Reform and the Transformation of the Euro-Atlantic Security Institutions, with participation from leading US and European experts and politicians.

From 1991 to 2002, he served as Director of the [[Stockholm International Peace Research Institute]] (SIPRI) and in 1989–1991 project leader on Building a Cooperative Security System in and for Europe at SIPRI.

== Life ==
Rotfeld was born on 4 March 1938, in [[Peremyshliany|Przemyślany]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msz.gov.pl/en/p/msz_en/ministry/polish_diplomacy_archive/former_ministers/adam_daniel_rotfeld_1;jsessionid=DFC17A76D9B98D70644FD20A732C0698.cmsap1p|title=Adam Daniel Rotfeld 5 I 2005 - 31 X 2005|website=www.msz.gov.pl|access-date=2019-03-07}}</ref> near Lwów, Poland (now [[Lviv]], Ukraine). He survived [[the Holocaust]] in the [[Univ Lavra]], a monastery of the [[Studite Brethren]]. During the war he was among people who received the Paraguayan citizenship certificate issued by [[Ładoś Group]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://instytutpileckiego.pl/public/upload/articles_files/LISTA%20LADOSIA-lista-ang(2).pdf|title=Ładoś List - results of research as of 24 October 2019|date=24 October 2019|website=[[Pilecki Institute]]|page=69|access-date=2020-04-07|archive-date=16 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216092357/https://instytutpileckiego.pl/public/upload/articles_files/LISTA%20LADOSIA-lista-ang(2).pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Rotfeld was married to Barbara Sikorska-Rotfeld (died in 2006) and has one daughter, Alicja, born in 1971.

Rotfeld studied international law and diplomacy in [[Warsaw]] (1955–1960). He wrote his PhD dissertation on the right of self-determination of people in modern international law at the [[Jagiellonian University]], [[Kraków]] which he defended in 1969. Later, [[habilitation]] on European Security in ''Statu Nascendi''.{{clarify |date=January 2018}} He was appointed professor at [[Warsaw University]] by the President of Poland in 2001.

==Professional activities==
From 1961, Rotfeld worked as a researcher at the [[Polish Institute of International Affairs]] (PISM, the acronym formed from the Polish name). He was a member of the UN Secretary General Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters from 2006 to 2011, and its chair in 2008; member of the NATO Expert Group on the New Strategic Concept of Alliance (2009–2010), and since 2010 Commissioner of the Euro-Atlantic Security Commission, member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

After 1989, he has served as leader of the Project on Building a Co–operative Security System in and for Europe at the [[Stockholm International Peace Research Institute]] (SIPRI). He was appointed as Director of SIPRI from 1 July 1991 and re–elected in 1996 for a second term, lasting until June 2002. He is a member of many consultative bodies and scientific councils, including the Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is co-chairman of [[Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters]].

He has participated in many multilateral negotiations and conferences on security and arms control.

==Publications==
Rotfeld has published and edited more than 20 monographs and over 400 articles. His work initially focused on the legal and political aspect of relations between Germany and Central and East European states after World War II (recognition of borders, the [[Munich Agreement]] and the right of [[self-determination]]) and multilateral process of security and cooperation in Europe initiated by the [[Helsinki Accords]], as well as arms control and non-proliferation.

After the end of the cold war he co-edited the volume ''Germany and Europe in Transition'' (OUP 1991) with [[Walther Stützle]]. Since then his publications have mainly focused on human rights, cooperative security, [[Confidence-building measures|CSBMs]], multilateral security structures ([[NATO]], EU, [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]] (OSCE)) and the political and legal structures of the security system in Europe.

He was editor of the ''SIPRI Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security'' from 1991 to 2002. He has written more than 20 chapters on global and regional security systems and European and transatlantic security structures for the SIPRI Yearbook. He initiated the Warsaw Reflection Group (2004) and chaired the series of reports on the UN reform, multilateral European security institutions and on arms control, non-proliferation and denuclearization.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://old.al.uw.edu.pl/en-362|title=Professor Adam Daniel Rotfeld {{!}} Faculty of Artes Liberales|website=old.al.uw.edu.pl|access-date=2019-03-07}}</ref>

==Appointments==
In his capacity as Director of SIPRI, he was appointed in 1992 as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office to elaborate the political settlement of the conflict in the [[Transnistria|Trans–Dniester region]] of [[Moldova]]; the recommended basic principles for the political solution of the conflict in his report were approved by the [[OSCE Council of Ministers]] and conflicting parties.

Since 2001, he has been a member of the President of Poland's National Security Council.

He became Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA, Warsaw) in November 2001; in June 2003 he was appointed Secretary of State and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs between January 2005 and November 2005.

Since 2006, he has been a member of the UN Secretary-General's {{not a typo|Advisory Board}} on Disarmament Matters (chaired 2008).

Since 2008, former Foreign Minister Rotfeld has been Co-Chairing the Polish-Russian Group For Difficult Issues, in particular the [[Katyn massacre]], together with Rector of the [[Moscow State Institute of International Relations]] (University), [[Anatoly V. Torkunov]].

==Memberships==
He is a member of different academies and boards: the [[Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences]] (appointed in 1996); the Governing Board of the [[Hamburg Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy]] at the [[University of Hamburg]] (IFSH, appointed in 1995); the {{not a typo|Advisory Board}} of [[Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces]] (DCAF, appointed in 2001); [[Geneva Security Policy Centre]] (2003), and many other research centres. He has been a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations since 2009.

Since March 2011, he has been professor at the Warsaw University Institute of Interdisciplinary Research (Collegium Artes Liberales). He has lectured at many universities and academic institutions in Europe, the United States, Russia, China and Japan.

As former Polish minister for integration, in 2012 signed the [[George Soros|Soros]]' open letter calling for more Europe in the single currency turmoil.<ref>[http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7d85abd2-f353-11e0-b11b-00144feab49a.html#axzz1bmUcohQo As concerned Europeans we urge eurozone leaders to unite], retrieved on 16 February 2012.</ref>

He serves as a member of the [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe|OSCE]]'s Panel of Eminent Persons.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Panel of Eminent Persons|url=https://www.osce.org/networks/pep|access-date=2021-03-26|website=[[osce.org]]|language=en}}</ref>

== Awards and honours ==
Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta – 2010<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prezydent.pl/archiwum-bronislawa-komorowskiego/aktualnosci/ordery-i-odznaczenia/art,864,ordery-dla-pracownikow-sluzby-dyplomatycznej.html|title=Ordery dla pracowników służby dyplomatycznej / Ordery i odznaczenia / Aktualności / Archiwum Bronisława Komorowskiego / Oficjalna strona Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej|website=www.prezydent.pl|access-date=2019-03-11}}</ref>

The Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta – 2005<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prezydent.pl/aleksandra-kwasniewskiego/aktualnosci/rok-2005/art,151,475,uroczystosc-wreczenia-orderow-i-odznaczen-z-okazji-narodowego-swieta-niepodleglosci.html|title=Oficjalna strona Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej / Archiwum Aleksandra Kwaśniewskiego / Aktualności / Rok 2005 / Uroczystość wręczenia orderów i odznaczeń z okazji Narodowego Święta Niepodległości|website=www.prezydent.pl|access-date=2019-03-11|archive-date=29 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629043917/http://www.prezydent.pl/aleksandra-kwasniewskiego/aktualnosci/rok-2005/art,151,475,uroczystosc-wreczenia-orderow-i-odznaczen-z-okazji-narodowego-swieta-niepodleglosci.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Bene Merito Honorary Badge – 2009<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msz.gov.pl/pl/ministerstwo/sluzba_zagraniczna/dzien_sluzby_zagranicznej/wreczenie_przez_ministra_radoslawa_sikorskiego_odznaki_bene_merito?printMode=true|title=Wręczenie odznaczeń "Bene Merito" przez Ministra Spraw Zagranicznych Radosława Sikorskiego|website=www.msz.gov.pl|access-date=2019-03-11}}</ref>

Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation Award – 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nowy.ekai.pl/media/szuflada/Nagroda_Pojednania_Polsko_.htm|title=Nagroda Pojednania Polsko-Ukraińskiego|website=nowy.ekai.pl|access-date=2019-03-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ji-magazine.lviv.ua/inform/kapitula/kapitula.htm|title=Капітула нагороди поєднання|website=www.ji-magazine.lviv.ua|access-date=2019-03-11}}</ref> 

Honorary Doctorate in National Defense, University of Warsaw – 2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archiwum2013.mon.gov.pl/|title=Page has moved|website=archiwum2013.mon.gov.pl|access-date=2019-03-11}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717135114/http://nauka-polska.pl/dhtml/raporty/ludzieNauki?rtype=opis&objectId=11037&lang=pl Prof. dr hab. Adam Daniel Rotfeld at Nauka Polska]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080612182359/http://msz.gov.pl/auths/91/files/min_cv_de.html Nota biograficzna na stronie Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych] {{in lang|de}}
* [http://www.polityka.pl/archive/do/registry/secure/showArticle?id=2000505 Adam Daniel Rotfeld, ''Wspomnienia. Tyle pamiętam''] w: "[[Polityka]]" Nr 7 (2491)/2005
* Polish-Russian Group For Difficult Issues, in particular [[Katyn massacre]], co-Chaired by Rector of the [[Moscow State Institute of International Relations]] (University) – [[Anatoly V. Torkunov]] and former Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld – [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/xinhua/2011-04-12/content_2272502.html 12 April 2011]{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/23/tortured-polish-russian-story 23 February 2011] and [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/visits/world/6095/info/3226/ 29 January 2009] and [http://www.msz.gov.pl/Regarding,the,results,of,the,of,the,work,of,the,Joint,Polish,%E2%80%93,Russian,Group,for,Difficult,Matters,session,18328.html 17 June 2008]

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