Jakub Hardie-Douglas

Jakub Hardie-Douglas (born 1982) is a politician and businessperson. He was a member of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship Sejmik from 2018 to 2024.

Biography
Jakub Hardie-Douglas was born in 1982 in Szczecinek. He is Polish of Scottish descent. His father is Jerzy Hardie-Douglas, a politician who was a member of the Sejm of Poland from 2019 to 2023, and the mayor of Szczecinek from 2006 to 2018, and again since 2024. He has graduated from the Faculty of the Geographical and Geological Sciences of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and later lived and worked in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. After moving back to Poland, he began working in a Poznań-based advertising agency, and later, in a German consulting firm. He eventually started his own advertising agency.

He belongs to the Civic Platform party. From 2014 to 2018 he was a member of the Szczecinek County Council, and from 2018 to 2024, a member of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship Sejmik. In 2024 he was again elected to the Szczecinek County Council.

Controversies
In 2019, he was sued of defamation by Jacek Pawłowicz, and was ordered to pay him 10,000 Polish złoties in demages, and donate as much to a hospice in Szczecinek. Douglas-Hardie was sued after he published an article, in which he accused Pawłowicz, a local political opponent, and member of rival Law and Justice party, of political corruption. He also claimed that him recently becoming a deputy director of a spa company in Połczyn-Zdrój, was due to his party membership, and accused him of lacking sufficient qualifications. Such claims were found to be faulse by the court in Koszalin.