Alvin Gajadhur

Alvin Gajadhur was born on 3 July 1973 in London, England, as a son of Polish mother, Zofia, and Indian father, Anirood, and grew up in Poland.^[1][2][3] He graduated from St. Augustin General Education High School in Warsaw, and later, from the Warsaw University of Technology with degrees in chemical engineering, and management and marketing.^[4] In 2003, he received the title of the habilitated doctor in chemiatry from the same university.^[5] He also completed the training for candidates for road transport inspectors.^[6]

Gajadhur has lectured on road transport, marketing, and public relations. From 2002 to 2016, he was the spokesperson for the Chief Inspector of Road Transport. From 2007 to 2012, he also served as a public relations advisor to the President of the Office of Rail Transport. In 2013, together with Mariusz Sokołowski and Klaudia Podkalicka, he co-hosted the TVP3 Warszawa educational programme Szkoła Przetrwania, concerning road safety, and has also been a blogger for Onet.pl.^[4][7] He actively posts on social media, including on TikTok.^[8]

Gajadhur unsuccessfully ran in the 2011 parliamentary election for the office of a member of the Sejm of Poland in the constituency no. 19, as a candidate of the Law and Justice.^[9] On 6 January 2016, he became acting Chief Inspector of Road Transport, following the dismissal of Tomasz Połeć, and was fully appointed to the role on 7 April 2017.^[10][11]

In the 2023 election, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of a member of the Senate of Poland in the constituency no. 43, as an independent candidate, on the Law and Justice electoral list.^[12] On 27 November 2023, he was appointed to the office of the Minister of Infrastructure in the third cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki, serving until 13 December 2023.^[13][14] On 4 January 2024, he was also dismissed as the Chief Inspector of Road Transport.^[15] In February 2024, he was appointed as the social advisor of the President of Poland Andrzej Duda.^[16] In August 2025, following the election of president Karol Nawrocki, he was reappointed to the same office in his administration.^[17][18] Additionally, in 2024, he unsuccessfully ran for the office of a member of the European Parliament, in the constituency no. 4.^[19]

In January 2025, criminal proceedings were initiated against him for allegedly publishing classified information on the social media platform Twitter in February and March 2024. This included official correspondence of the Chief Inspectorate of Road Transport employees and a letter from February 2016 addressed to the then Minister of Infrastructure and Construction, which, according to investigators, were intended solely for internal use. Gajadhur pleaded not guilty to the charges, and in August 2025, the Warsaw Regional Court dismissed the proceedings without a final judgment, stating that there were no elements of a crime in the case.^[20][21]

He declares himself as Roman Catholic.^[22]

• Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2025, Poland)^[17]