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MY WROCLAW
RAFA� DUTKIEWICZ
ARTS & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS • 4.2 • AUTUMN 2019
Mayor of Wroclaw (2002–2018)
Rafał Dutkiewicz is a politician, businessperson, academic lecturer, and activist.
From 2002 to 2018, Dutkiewicz was mayor of the city of Wroclaw.
During his presidency, Wroclaw has seen the highest number of public investments
in its post-war history and has won numerous awards and distinctions
in Polish, European and global rankings on a knowledge-based economy and
implementation of a “smart city” model. Wroclaw has also become an international
city with over 170,000 foreigners from 124 countries. Further, it
was the European Capital of Culture in 2016 and co-hosted the 2012 UEFA
Euro Football Championship. Prior to his presidency, Dutkiewicz gave lectures
on logics and introduction to mathematics at several universities for
more than 10 years. During the martial law period, he was an activist in the
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