Jadwiga Emilewicz

Jadwiga Katarzyna Emilewicz (born 27 August 1974) is a Polish politician and political scientist. In 2020, she was Deputy Prime Minister of Poland. In 2019, she became Minister of Development, upon her three-year service as an undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Development, and from 2018 to 2019, she was Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki.

Biography Emilewicz was born in Kraków in 1974 to Antoni and Zdzisława Szyler.

Emilewicz studied political science at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, graduating in 1998. She began a collaboration with the Center for Political Thought in 1995. During the late 1990s, she joined the 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. She also became an active member of Opus Dei.

In 1997, she completed a journalist's internship under Robert Mazurek at the conservative daily , edited by Tomasz Wołek. She obtained a postgraduate diploma from Wadham College, Oxford in the same year. when she became the head of the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki. 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.

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.

Publications 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.