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Jadwiga Emilewicz appointed as the Government Plenipotentiary for Polish-Ukrainian Development Cooperation

15.05.2023

On 15 May 2023, the Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki appointed Jadwiga Emilewicz as the Government Plenipotentiary for Polish-Ukrainian Development Cooperation and on request of the Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy, as the Secretary of State.

Jadwiga Emilewicz appointed as the Government Plenipotentiary for Polish-Ukrainian Development Cooperation

Her tasks will include supporting the cooperation between governmental bodies, executive agencies, associations, chambers of commerce and other national actors involved in Polish-Ukrainian development cooperation, particularly in the area of reconstruction of Ukraine.

Jadwiga Emilewicz will also carry out activities with the aim to promote cooperation between national entrepreneurs and other national entities involved in cooperation between Poland and Ukraine, and she will represent the Council of Ministers in talks with the Ukrainian party in this area.

From 2019 to 2020, she was a minister in the second cabinet of the Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki; from 15 November 2019, as the Minister of Development and from 9 April 2020, she additionally took the office of Deputy Prime Minister. Co-author of the Financial and Crisis Shield for companies facing an unprecedented crisis during the Covid-19 pandemic. These solutions facilitated the survival of many Polish entrepreneurs and saved jobs. She served in the government until 6 October 2020. Since 2019, she has been the Member of the Polish Sejm, the member of the Law and Justice parliamentary club.  

Previously, in 2018-2019, she acted in the capacity of the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology and in 2015-2018, in the capacity of the Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Development. 

From 1999 to 2002, she worked in the Foreign Affairs Department of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. 

Graduate of the Institute of Political Sciences, Jagiellonian University. At the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University, she opened her doctoral dissertation procedure. She is a fellow of the University of Oxford and the programme of the American Council on Germany, Dräger Foundation, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. Since 2003, she has been affiliated with the  Tischner European University in Kraków.

Social activist, manager of culture and author of numerous scientific publications. 

She speaks English, German and French.

She has three sons.

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