Henryk Kowalczyk | |
Nationality: | Polish |
Office1: | Deputy Prime Minister of Poland |
Term Start1: | 26 October 2021 |
Term End1: | 21 June 2023 |
President1: | Andrzej Duda |
Primeminister1: | Mateusz Morawiecki |
Office2: | Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development |
Term Start2: | 26 October 2021 |
Term End2: | 6 April 2023 |
Primeminister2: | Mateusz Morawiecki |
Predecessor2: | Grzegorz Puda |
Successor2: | Robert Telus |
Office3: | Minister of Environment |
Term Start3: | 9 January 2018 |
Term End3: | 15 November 2019 |
Primeminister3: | Mateusz Morawiecki |
Predecessor3: | Jan Szyszko |
Successor3: | Michał Kurtyka |
Office4: | Minister of State Treasury Acting |
Term Start4: | 16 September 2016 |
Term End4: | 31 December 2016 |
President4: | Andrzej Duda |
Primeminister4: | Beata Szydło Mateusz Morawiecki |
Predecessor4: | Dawid Jackiewicz |
Successor4: | Jacek Sasin |
Office5: | Minister of the Council of Ministers |
Term Start5: | 16 November 2015 |
Term End5: | 9 January 2018 |
President5: | Andrzej Duda |
Primeminister5: | Beata Szydło Mateusz Morawiecki |
Office6: | Member of the Sejm |
Term Start6: | 25 September 2005 |
Constituency6: | 18 – Siedlce |
Party: | Law and Justice |
Birth Date: | 15 July 1956 |
Alma Mater: | University of Warsaw |
Henryk Kowalczyk (pronounced as /pl/; born 15 July 1956) is a Polish politician and teacher, who is seved as Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
He was first elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005. In 2006–2007, secretary of state in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. From 2015 to 2018 he was a minister without portfolio in the cabinet of Beata Szydło. At the same time, he was the chair of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers and vice-chair of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers.[1] In 2016, he was the acting Minister of State Treasury. In the years 2018–2019, he served as the Minister of the Environment in the first government of Mateusz Morawiecki. In 2021, he was designated as the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.