{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczyslaw_S._Ostojski"}
Mieczyslaw Stefan Ostojski (born 1 January 1954) was the second vice-president of the World Meteorological Organization and former director general of the Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management.

Early life

Mieczyslaw S. Ostojski was born on January 1, 1954, at Sławno. He graduated from the Gdansk University of Technology, where in 1988 he received the degree of Doctor of Environmental Engineering. In 2012 he obtained a postdoctoral degree of environmental engineering at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at Wroclaw University of Technology.

Career

In the years 1991-1995, Ostojski was the organizer and first director of the Regional Water Management in Gdansk. He worked in the Ministry of the Environment as director of the Foreign Relations Department at the ministry from 1996 to 1999. In 1999-2003 he headed the Secretariat of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea in Helsinki (HELCOM) as executive secretary. After returning from Helsinki in August 2003, Ostojski was appointed director of the Department of Water Resources, Ministry of Environment for the period from September 2003 to May 2006. From 1 June 2006, Ostojski directed the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management State Research Institute.

Ostojski has also held the following positions:

Prosecution charges

In 2016, M. Ostojski was arrested on charges of corruption, abuse of powers in order to obtain financial gain, fraud and falsification of the document. In 2017, the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw announced that a total of 94 charges had been brought against him, including corruption, abuse of powers to accept property benefits, fraud, misappropriation of property and falsification of documents.

Patents

Ostojski M. & D. Karkosiński Device for sampling liquids especially from an open sewer. PRL Patent No. 148,659 (253,896 copyright certificate dated 9 May 1990).

Selected publications