In 1983, Jacek Jan Piechota graduated from a magistracy at the Faculty of Chemical Technology and Engineering of Szczecin Polytechnic University, having received a degree in chemical engineer.
In 1984-1985 he worked as a chemistry teacher in the VI secondary lyceum in Szczecin.[1]
In 1978, he joined the Polish Joint Work Party. After its dissolution, by 1999 he belonged to the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland.
From 19 November 2001 to 7 January 2003 he served as the Minister of Economy in the Government of Miller Leszek.
Jacek Jan Piechota was a member of the election committee of Vlodzimezh Tsimoshevych in the 2005 presidential election. In 2006, with the support of the election committee of the Left and Democrats, balloted to the post of the President of Szczecin.[2]