Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz

Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz
Ph.D.
Pełczyńska-Nałęcz in 2024
Minister of Funding and Regional Policy
Incumbent
Assumed office
13 December 2023
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
Preceded byMałgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak
Poland Ambassador to Russia
In office
19 November 2014 – 31 July 2016
PresidentBronisław Komorowski
Andrzej Duda
Preceded byWojciech Zajączkowski
Succeeded byWłodzimierz Marciniak
Personal details
Born (1970-10-26) October 26, 1970 (age 54)
Warsaw, Poland
Political partyPoland 2050 (since 2020)
Children3
ProfessionPolitician

Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz (born October 26, 1970) is a Polish sociologist and the former Ambassador of Poland to Russia. She succeeded Wojciech Zajączkowski in the fall of 2014. She became the first woman ambassador of Poland in Moscow since the establishment of Polish–Russian relations, between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the 16th century.[1] Pełczyńska-Nałęcz previously served as Undersecretary of State at the Polish Foreign Ministry.

Life

Pełczyńska-Nałęcz graduated from the Institute of Sociology of Warsaw University in 1994.[2] Then she worked at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences[2] where in 1999 she defended her Ph.D. Later she became the deputy director at the Center for Eastern Studies[2] and the head of its Russian Department.

In an interview to a Russian news agency, Pełczyńska-Nałęcz said the return of the wreck of the Polish presidential plane which crashed in 2010 would be "of symbolic significance for Poland".[3]

Pełczyńska-Nałęcz speaks English and Russian.[4] She is married and has three children.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Poland's new ambassadors to Russia and the UN". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland. 14 Aug 2014. Retrieved 15 Aug 2014.
  2. ^ a b c "Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs will become a new Polish ambassador to Russia". EU-Russia Civil Society Forum. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 15 Aug 2014.
  3. ^ "New ambassador calls for speedy return of Smolensk plane wreck". Thenews.pl. 13 Aug 2014. Retrieved 15 Aug 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Посол". Embassy of Poland in Moscow. Retrieved 17 Oct 2014.