| Grzegorz Puda | |
| Office: | Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development |
| Term Start: | October 6, 2020 |
| Predecessor: | Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski |
| Birth Name: | Grzegorz Paweł Puda |
| Birth Date: | 13 July 1982 |
| Birth Place: | Bielsko-Biała, Poland |
| Party: | Law and Justice |
Grzegorz Paweł Puda (born July 13, 1982)[1] is a Polish politician and local government official, member of the Sejm of the 8th and 9th term (since 2015), in 2019 secretary of state at the Ministry of Investment and Development, 2019–2020 Secretary of State in the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy, from 2020 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the second government of Mateusz Morawiecki.
In 2006, he obtained the professional title of Master of Engineering in Animal Science at the Agricultural University of Kraków.[1] He worked, among others as a marketing manager in a private enterprise and a coordinator in the district office.[2]
He became involved in political activities within the Law and Justice party. In 2006, 2010 and 2014, he was a city councilor in Bielsko-Biała.[3] [4] [5] In the general elections in 2015, he ran for the Sejm from the eighth place on the PiS list in the Bielsko district. He was elected deputy of the 8th term of office, receiving 12,262 votes.[6]
In July 2019, he was appointed by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki as the secretary of state at the Ministry of Investment and Development.[7] In the general elections in 2019, he successfully ran for re-election, obtaining 23,907 votes.[8] In November 2019, after transformations in the structure of ministries, he moved to the position of the secretary of state in the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy.[9]
In January 2020, he became the government plenipotentiary for the organization of the World City Forum in 2022.[10]
On October 6, 2020, he was appointed the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the office of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. He replaced Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski in this function.[11]