As the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Labour and Technology, Jarosław Gowin will be responsible for the state economic policy – entrepreneurship, industrial policy, innovation and technology, digital transformation, green economy and foreign economic relations. The new minister’s scope of responsibilities also encompasses issues of employment and combating unemployment; working relations and conditions; wages and employee benefits, collective bargaining and disputes, as well as trade unions and employer organisations. The minister will also be responsible for construction, land use planning and development, housing and tourism.

As a Minister, he manages, among others: Public Procurement Office, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, Central Office of Measures, Office of Technical Inspection, Polish Space Agency, Future Industry Platform Foundation, Polish Tourist Organisation, National Real Estate Stock, General Office of Building Control. He is responsible for the Central Registration and Information on Business, containing a registry of over 2.5 million businesses.

Jarosław Gowin was born on 4 December 1961 in Krakow. Between 2011 and 2013 he was the Minister of Justice, responsible for the deregulation act. Between 2015 and 2020, he was the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Science and Higher Education. He has introduced the Constitution for Science, i.e. a great reform of higher education and science carried out on a basis of broad dialogue with the academic community, raises for academic staff and ground-breaking changes in training doctoral students; two acts on innovation, providing an impulse for R&D activity, as well as programmes facilitating dissemination of science for children and seniors. He started the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange) and the Łukasiewicz Research Network.

In the 1980s he was a member of the Independent Students’ Association and “Solidarity.” A Cambridge university scholarship holder.

In 2003, he founded the Tischner European University in Krakow, where he held the position of a rector until 2013.

Senator of the 6th term. A member of the Science and Education Committee and the Local Government and State Administration Committee.

He has been a member of the Polish Parliament since 2007. Chairman of the United Right Parliamentary Club in the Sejm of the 7th term. He held the following functions during his term in the parliament: the chairman of the Team for the Bioethics Convention, the chairman of the extraordinary Committee for reviewing the draft acts on the amendment of the Polish Constitution and a member of the National Security Council.

An author of numerous books, journalistic articles, reviews and memoirs. He spends his free time in the mountains and reading books. His favourite actors are Wilhelm Röpke, Friedrich August von Hayek and Adam Smith. He particularly enjoys baroque music.

Married, father of three.