Jadwiga Emilewicz | |
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.jpg) Official portrait, 2019 | |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Poland | |
| In office 9 April 2020 – 6 October 2020 | |
| President | Andrzej Duda |
| Prime Minister | Mateusz Morawiecki |
| Preceded by | Jarosław Gowin |
| Succeeded by | Jarosław Gowin Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Minister of Development | |
| In office 15 November 2019 – 6 October 2020 | |
| President | Andrzej Duda |
| Prime Minister | Mateusz Morawiecki |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Jarosław Gowin (AsMinister of Development, Labour and Technology) |
| Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology | |
| In office 9 January 2018 – 15 November 2019 | |
| President | Andrzej Duda |
| Prime Minister | Mateusz Morawiecki |
| Preceded by | Mateusz Morawiecki |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jadwiga Katarzyna Szyler (1974-08-27)27 August 1974 (age 51) Kraków, Poland |
| Political party | Agreement(2017–2020) |
| Alma mater | Jagiellonian University |
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Jadwiga Katarzyna Emilewicz (born 27 August 1974) is a Polish politician and political scientist. In 2020, she wasDeputy Prime Minister of Poland. In 2019, she becameMinister of Development, upon her three-year service as an undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Development, and from 2018 to 2019, she wasMinister of Entrepreneurship and Technology in the government ofMateusz Morawiecki.
Emilewicz was born inKraków in 1974 to Antoni and Zdzisława Szyler.[1]
Emilewicz studiedpolitical science at theJagiellonian University in Kraków, graduating in 1998.[2] She began a collaboration with theCenter for Political Thought in 1995. During the late 1990s, she joined theKlub Jagielloński [pl] association, where she organised discussions involvingLech Kaczyński,Ludwik Dorn andJan Rokita, and metJarosław Gowin, the editor-in-chief of the monthlyZnak, who became her political mentor.[3][4] She also became an active member ofOpus Dei.[5]
In 1997, she completed a journalist's internship underRobert Mazurek at the conservative dailyŻycie [pl], edited byTomasz Wołek.[3] She held a counsellor's appointment in the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Prime MinisterJerzy Buzek'sChancellery from 1998 to 2002. In 2002, she publishedReformers and Politicians: The Power Play for the 1998 Reform of Public Administration in Poland, as Seen by Its Main Players, jointly with Artur Wołek.[6] She obtained apostgraduate diploma fromWadham College, Oxford in the same year.[2]
On 27 November 2015, Emilewicz was appointed undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Development and held the function until 2018,[7] when she became the head of theMinistry of Entrepreneurship and Technology in the government ofMateusz Morawiecki.[8] Emilewicz retained the office during its reorganization intoMinistry of Development upon the following election in 2019 and thus entered Morawiecki's second cabinet. Meanwhile, in 2017, she was one of the founders of theAgreement, a party of which she shortly became a Vice Leader.[9]
In 2020, Emilewicz was sworn in asDeputy Prime Minister of Poland, simultaneously maintaining her so-far ministerial office, following Jarosław Gowin stepping down as Deputy Prime Minister and her candidature being proposed by Gowin'sAgreement party instead.[10]
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