Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz

(born October 26, 1970 in Warsaw) - Polish sociologist and political scientist, specialist in Eastern European issues, in 2012–2014 Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in 2014–2016 Polish ambassador to the Russian Federation.

Daughter of mathematician Aleksander Pełczyński. In 1994, she graduated from the Institute of Sociology of the University of Warsaw. In 1999, at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, she defended her doctoral thesis entitled Political activity of Poles 1989–1995.

After graduating, she started working at IFiS PAN, where she remained employed until 2003. In the years 1992–1995 and 1999–2012 she was associated with the Center for Eastern Studies in Warsaw, where she held, among others, the position of head of the Russian department and deputy director.

From 2011 to 2012, she was a representative of OSW in Brussels and coordinator of a joint research project of OSW and the French Institute of International Affairs.

In her scientific and expert work, she analyzed international relations in the post-Soviet area, the socio-political situation in Russia and Eastern European countries, as well as the EU's policy towards these countries.

From 2008 to 2012, she sat in the Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Issues, and in 2009–2010 in the Steering Committee of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum.

In January 2012, she was appointed Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She ended her term of office in July 2014 in connection with the nomination procedure for the ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Russian Federation.

On November 19, 2014, she presented her credentials in Moscow as the new ambassador. Dismissed from the office of ambassador on July 31, 2016.

In the same year, she took up the position of director of the Open Europe program of the Foundation. Stefan Batory, and then the director of the think tank of the Forum Ideas foundation.

In 2020, she was on the electoral staff of the presidential candidate Szymon Hołownia. She took up the position of director of the Strategie 2050 Institute, operating in the Poland 2050 movement established by Szymon Hołownia.

Chief of staff of Szymon Hołownia's Poland 2050 during the election campaign before the 2023 parliamentary elections.