Katarzyna Kacperczyk, Expert

Specialisation: economic diplomacy

Since 2002 professionally connected with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Employed successively in the Department of Strategy and Foreign Policy Planning, then in the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the UN in New York and in the Department of Foreign Economic Policy. In 2010, she became deputy director of the Economic Policy Department, then became director of the Economic Cooperation Department.

On 1 November 2013, she became Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs with the rank of Undersecretary of State. She was dismissed from her post on 24 August 2016. On 1 September of the same year, she became Chief Advisor in the Political Office of the Prime Minister. She held this position until 2017. In 2018, she was appointed Director of the Centre for International Programmes at the Warsaw School of Economics. In 2011, she was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit