Riad Haidar
1951–2023 (age 72)
Biography
Riad Haidar (Polish: [ˈrjat xaˈi.dar]; Arabic: رياض حيدر, romanized: Riyāḍ Ḥaydar [riːˈɑːdˤ ħaj.dar]; 1 August 1951 – 25 May 2023) was a Polish-Syrian politician, physician, and social activist. From 2019 to 2023 he was a member of the Sejm of Poland, and from 2010 to 2019 he was a member of the Lublin Voivodeship Sejmik. From 1998 to 2019 he was the medical director of the Neonatology Ward of the Voivodeship Specialist Hospital in Biała Podlaska.
From 2000 to 2019 he was a member of the Democratic Left Alliance, and later was the nonpartisan politician aligned with the Civic Coalition electoral alliance, and informally aligned with the Polish Initiative.