Born in Kielce on 22 April 1954, finished the Technical Building School in Zgoda Street to continue his education at Kraków Technical University, where he graduated in Civil Engineering. He started his career as a foreman at a construction site near Przemyśl. For 20 years he worked for the Kielce company Chemadin, where he worked his way up through the corporate hierarchy, from a foreman, junior manager, senior manager, to the president of the company with over two thousand subordinates. In 1999 he became the governor of the Świętokrzyskie Province. While performing this function, he initiated a number of actions to promote the region, e.g. the first meeting of the diplomatic corps in post-war Poland outside Warsaw, concerts and national art competitions and exhibitions “The Holy Cross” (a traditional symbol of the region), renovation of the ecumenical Temple of Peace in the former Polish Catholic church, erection of the first monument to Miles Davis in the world, the first billboard campaign promoting the province in Poland. As the świętokrzyski governor, Wojciech Lubawski created the “Dream Team”, a group of young, ambitious and very talented people of the region. He originated a catalogue of firms operating in the metal and machine industry which was compiled and sent to 2000 major European companies. Among his other initiatives were the publication “Świętokrzyskie – the heart of the Polish building industry”, the creation of a team responsible for Investment Information Online, and the European Hall. Świętokrzyski Provincial Government won the title of Poland’s most customer friendly government office, and the certificate of Quality Management System according to the standard PN-EN ISO 9001:2001.
Winning in the second round of self-government elections in November 2002, Wojciech Lubawski was elected President of Kielce and sworn into office on 19 November 2002.
He has a wife, Małgorzata, and two children: a son, Wojciech, and daughter, Małgorzata.

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