Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz Explained

Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz
Office:Minister of Funding and Regional Policy
Term Start:13 December 2023
Primeminister:Donald Tusk
Predecessor:Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak
Ambassador From1:Poland
Country1:Russia
President1:Bronisław Komorowski
Andrzej Duda
Term Start1:19 November 2014
Term End1:31 July 2016
Predecessor1:Wojciech Zajączkowski
Successor1:Włodzimierz Marciniak
Birth Date:26 October 1970
Birth Place:Warsaw, Poland
Profession:Politician
Honorific Suffix:Ph.D.
Children:3
Party:Poland 2050 (since 2020)

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Poland's new ambassadors to Russia and the UN . Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland. 14 Aug 2014. 15 Aug 2014.
  2. Web site: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs will become a new Polish ambassador to Russia. EU-Russia Civil Society Forum. 15 Aug 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140819093231/http://eu-russia-csf.org/newsdetail/article/1006.html. 19 August 2014. dead.
  3. Web site: New ambassador calls for speedy return of Smolensk plane wreck . Thenews.pl. 13 Aug 2014. 15 Aug 2014 .
  4. Web site: Посол . Embassy of Poland in Moscow. 17 Oct 2014.