Monika Piątkowska

Born on 18 August 1974 in Zakopane. Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University. Fellow of the U.S. Department of State under the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). She has many years of experience in both the public and the private sectors. In 2003–2012, she served as Director of the Department of Strategy and Development at the Kraków City Hall. At the same time, from 2009 to 2012, she was Plenipotentiary of the Mayor of Kraków for city branding, and was responsible, among other things, for the participation of Kraków in international investment fairs as well as Expos in Aichi, Saragossa and Shanghai. From 2012 to 2014, she led the Department of Social Communications at the Ministry of Economy; she was also the Spokeswoman for the Minister of Economy. Later on, she sat in the Management Board of Polska Agencja Informacji i Inwestycji Zagranicznych S.A. (Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency), where she was responsible for the economic promotion of Poland, as well as communications and cooperation with national and international media. In 2015–2018, she served as the President of the Management Board of INNOVO, a union of employers bringing together companies in the industrial and energy sectors. From 2018 until she took up her seat as Senator, she was President of the Management Board at the Economic Chamber of Traders, Grain Processors and Feed Manufacturers (the Grain and Feed Chamber) – the largest sectoral trade organisation, being a member of such EU organisations as FEFAC, COCERAL and ECE. For her contributions, she has received the Decoration of Honour Meritorious for the Development of the Economy of the Republic of Poland.

Polish politician (born 1974)