Barbara Nowacka

Barbara Nowacka

Minister of Education, Poland

She was born on May 10, 1975 in Warsaw.

She is a graduate of the Tadeusz Reytan High School VI in Warsaw. She is an IT

specialist by profession. Graduated from the Faculty of Management at the University

of Warsaw and completed an MBA at the French Institute of Management. From 2004

to 2009 she served as director of marketing, and from 2009 to 2019 she was chancellor

of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology.

President of the Inicjatywa Polska party, which has been co-founding the Civic

Coalition since 2018. Member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland for the 9th and

10th terms, elected in the Gdynia-Słupsk constituency. In the ninth term of the Sejm,

she worked, among other things, in the Education and Youth Committee and was vice-

chair of the Subcommittee on Science and Higher Education.

She is vice president of the Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka Foundation. She worked as a

volunteer at the Women's Helpline established by the Federation for Women and

Family Planning. Member of the Program Council of the Congress of Women. She twice

chaired the Citizens' Committee for the “Save the Women” legislative initiative

liberalizing the anti-abortion law. She was also a member of the Citizens' Committee

“Yes to in vitro.” She is a co-founder of Campus – the Future of Poland, Europe's largest

socio-political festival for young activists.

In 2016, she was named to Foreign Policy's annual FP Top 100 Global Thinkers list, and

in 2017 - together with the Save the Women committee - she received the Simone de

Beauvoir International Award “For Women's Freedom.” In 2020, she was awarded the

National Order of Merit, the fourth French decoration in the state's seniority hierarchy.