Hanna Suchocka served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1992 to 1993. She was the first woman to hold the position, and was the 14th woman to serve as Prime Minister in the world. 

Hanna Suchocka was born in 1946. Suchocka specialized in constitutional law at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, from which she graduated in 1968. She undertook a PhD in Constitutional Law in West Germany in 1975. She lectured in law there and at the Catholic University of Lublin. In 2015, she gained a habilitation (the highest university degree) at UAM.

Suchocka served as a member of parliament, the Sejm, from 1980 to 1985, and again from 1989 until 2001. In 1994 Suchocka was one of the founders of a liberal and social-democratic Liberal Union party. ​In 1995, Suchocka was a Member of the Board of Governors of the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam. From 1996 to 1997, she served as Chair of the Polish-Ukrainian Forum. From 1997 to 2000 she served as the Minister of Justice, Public Prosecutor General in a coalition government. 

Hanna Suchocka was Poland’s Ambassador to the Holy See between 2001 and 2013 and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the Vatican. In 2014, she was appointed to Pope Francis’ Pontifical Commission on the Protection of Minors. 

In addition to these roles, Suchocka is also a specialist in Constitutional Law and has served as a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.The former Prime Minister is also a member of the Club of Madrid.