Jarosław Gowin (born December 4, 1961 in Krakow) is a Polish conservative politician, and currently is Poland's minister of justice. He was elected to the Senate on September 25, 2005, as a candidate of the Civic Platform. During the 2007 Polish parliamentary elections, he was Platform's leader in the Krakow constituency after Jan Rokita had decided not to run. He was elected to the Sejm with 160,465 votes, which gave him second place, just behind Zbigniew Ziobro. Gowin has a PhD in philosophy and is the founder and dean of Krakow's Jozef Tischner Higher European School, which is named after his one-time professor and personal friend Józef Tischner. He is the former editor of the monthly Znak and is known to be an expert on the philosophy of John Paul II, having established the first graduate course in Poland dedicated to the field.
He is one of the first proponents of introducing school vouchers in Poland, and he believes that privatization is necessary for the improvement of Polish education standards.