Ignacy Niemczycki serves as Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.
He holds a degree in sociology from the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities and a degree in political science from the Graduate School for Social Research (a diploma from Lancaster University). He also earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Bocconi University in Milan. Additionally, he completed postgraduate studies in agriculture at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW) and in organic farming at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. He is an alumnus of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) and the Landecker Democracy Fellowship.
During his studies, he founded the Free Belarus Initiative to support the fight for democracy in Belarus. He served on the board of the Akcja Demokracja Foundation and led the Prof. Bronisław Geremek Foundation. He also founded and coordinated the civic coalition Front Europejski (European Front).
He has worked in public administration, including positions at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, the Office of the Committee for European Integration (UKIE), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU in Brussels. He also headed the European Affairs department at Polityka Insight. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as a public affairs manager and acting director for international communications at a corporation. He currently runs an organic farm in the Masurian region of Poland.