Piotr Müller

Piotr Józef Müller (born 2 May 1989 in Słupsk) is a Polish politician and lawyer, Undersecretary of State and Secretary of State (2019) at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, member of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers, Deputy to the 8th and 9th term Sejm, government spokesman and Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (2019-2023). He has been a Member of the European Parliament from Poland since July 2024.

Career Müller graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz Secondary School No. 2 in Słupsk. He was among the winners of a National School Contest on Knowledge about the European Union and National School Contest on Knowledge about Human Rights and finalists in the National School Contest on Knowledge about Poland and the Contemporary World and the National School Contest on History. He was a recipient of the Prime Minister and Minister of National Education scholarships, among others.

In 2016, he received his law degree at the University of Warsaw, where he studied as part of the College of Inter-area Individual Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. From 2010 to 2012 he served as the Chairman of the Student Government Board at the University of Warsaw. From 2013 to 2014, he was President of the Students’ Parliament of the Republic of Poland. He was a member of the Disciplinary Committee for academic teachers’ affairs at the General Council of Science and Higher Education From 2012 to 2016, he was a member of the Board of the University of Warsaw Foundation.

He joined the Law and Justice party. In 2011 and 2015, he pursued a seat in the Sejm of the Republic of Poland from this party’s list of candidates, but did not win a seat.

From November 2015 to April 2017, he was an advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin, and then became Director of the Minister’s Office at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He took the Sejm Deputy’s oath on 28 December 2018. On 7 January 2019, he was appointed as Secretary of State at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education; he also became a member of existing committees within the Council of Ministers.

In the 2019 European Parliament election, he failed to obtain an MEP seat in the constituency covering the Pomeranian Voivodeship. On 4 June 2019, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki appointed him as the government spokesman and Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.

In the election held that year, he succeeded in becoming re-elected as a Sejm Deputy by receiving 26,892 votes. In November 2019, after the appointment of the government of the same Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki once again appointed him as the government spokesman and Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. He became a permanent member of government delegations led by the Prime Minister during foreign visits. He participated in meetings with Joe Biden, Mike Pence, Kamalla Harris, Mike Pompeo, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Olaf Scholz, Justin Trudeau, Boris Johnson, Giorgia Meloni, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mark Rutte and others.

In the 2023 elections, he was re-elected as a Sejm Deputy, receiving 72,813 votes. In December 2023, he concluded his duties in government administration. In the 2024 elections, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the 10th term. In the European Parliament, he joined the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Awards and distinctions In 2019, he was ranked as one of the 50 most influential Polish lawyers of the preceding year in a list prepared by the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna newspaper.

Personal life He is the son of Edward Müller. He was born in Słupsk.