Beata Rutkiewicz

Beata Katarzyna Rutkiewicz (born 9 February 1977) is a Polish politician and manager. Since 2023, she has been the voivode of Pomerania in Poland.

Biography Rutkiewicz was born on 9 February 1977 in Sierakowice, a village now located in Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.

She graduated from the Faculty of Ocean Engineering and Ship Technology of the Gdańsk University of Technology, and later received a postgraduate degree in government procurement from the University of Gdańsk. In 2022, she graduated with a degree in human capital management and management psychology from VIZJA University (then the University of Economics and Human Sciences) in Warsaw. She also graduated from the Collegium Humanum with a Master of Business Administration.

She worked as a specialist in government procurement in the Agricultural Property Agency in Gdańsk from 2003 to 2005, the municipal office of Pruszcz Gdański from 2005 to 2011, and the office of the municipality of Trąbki Wielkie from 2012 to 2015. In 2015, she became the deputy mayor of city development matters in Wejherowo. In the 2018 local elections, she was elected to be a member of the City Council of Wejherowa, as part of the Krzysztof Hildebrandt electoral committee. However she declined it, and remained in her previous office.

On 20 December 2023, Rudkiewicz was appointed as the Voivode of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

In 2024, she appointed Radosław Król, Voivode of the Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship, to the management council of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. In turn, he appointed her to its equivalent in Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship. After the matter was publicised by the news media, both resigned from those functions.