Witold Kołodziejski was born in Warsaw on 5 May 1966. He holds an MA in Philosophy and is a journalist, local government member and media expert.
Kołodziejski began his work as a reporter, editor and producer of programmes at TVP in 1993. From 2002 to 2006 he was a member and chairman of the Warsaw City Council. He was appointed to the National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) by the Polish Senate in January 2006 and served as KRRiT Chairman from 2007 to 2010. Later, he served as vice-mayor of the Ursynów District in Warsaw from 2010 to 2014, and he has been a councillor in the Masovian Regional Assembly since 2010.
He was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for his contribution to the digitisation of digital terrestrial television in Poland. He has served as Vice-Minister of Digitisation since 2015.
On 22 July 2016, Kołodziejski was appointed by the Sejm to the National Broadcasting Council for a six-year term. He was elected KRRiT Chairman at the first meeting of the National Broadcasting Council on 19 September 2016.
