Jadwiga Emilewicz

Emilewicz was born in Kraków in 1974 to Antoni and Zdzisława Szyler.^[1]

Emilewicz studied political science at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, graduating in 1998.^[2] She began a collaboration with the Center for Political Thought in 1995. During the late 1990s, she joined the Klub Jagielloński [pl] association, where she organised discussions involving Lech Kaczyński, Ludwik Dorn and Jan Rokita, and met Jarosław Gowin, the editor-in-chief of the monthly Znak, who became her political mentor.^[3][4] She also became an active member of Opus Dei.^[5]

In 1997, she completed a journalist's internship under Robert Mazurek at the conservative daily Życie [pl], edited by Tomasz Wołek.^[3] She held a counsellor's appointment in the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek's Chancellery from 1998 to 2002. In 2002, she published Reformers 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 a postgraduate diploma from Wadham 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 the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki.^[8] Emilewicz retained the office during its reorganization into Ministry 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 the Agreement, a party of which she shortly became a Vice Leader.^[9]

In 2020, Emilewicz was sworn in as Deputy 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's Agreement party instead.^[10]

• Reformers and politicians. The game for political reform in 1998 seen through the eyes of its actors, Nowy Sącz 2002 (together with Artur Wołek).
• European Eastern Policy. Challenge of Poles and Germans, Krakow 2008 (editor of collective work).
• College of Diplomacy, "New Europe" 2007, No. 1 (5).
• Citizenship Lesson, "Znak" 2003, No. 579.