Barbara Labuda

In 1970, Labuda graduated from the Institute of Romance Philology at the University of Wrocław.^[1] From 1970 to 1973, Labuda studied the history of literature, political science and sociology at the University of Paris.^[1] She completed a doctorate in 1984.^[1]

From 1973 until 1981, Labuda was an activist with the Polish Socialist Youth Union, and was also involved with the Workers' Defence Committee and the Committee for Social Self-Defense KOR.^[1] In 1980, she also began to work with the Polish trade union Solidarity.^[1]

In 1989, Labuda became a researcher at the Institute of Romance Philology at the University of Wrocław.^[1] That year she was also elected to the Contract Sejm for the Solidarity Citizens' Committee.^[1] She was elected again in 1991 and 1993 representing the Polish Democratic Union, and in 1994 she became a member of the Polish Freedom Union.^[1] During this time she was the founder of the Parliamentary Group of Women.^[1]

In 1996, Labuda became an undersecretary in the Chancellery of the President of Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski, and in 1998 she became secretary of state.^[1] From 2005 to 2010, Labuda was the Polish ambassador to Luxembourg.^[2]

In 2019, Labuda headed the support committee for the Polish political party Spring.^[3] In 2020, Labuda was a member of the Consultative Council.^[4]

In 2004, Labuda was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour from the Government of France.^[5] In 2011, she was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.^[6]

In 2005, Labuda published the book Poszukiwania (Searches).^[7]

• Knight's Cross, Order of the Legion of Honour (2004)
• Officer's Cross, Order of Polonia Restituta (2011)