Marcin Korolec

Marcin Korolec
Minister of Environment
In office
18 November 2011 – 27 November 2013
Prime Minister Donald Tusk
Preceded by Andrzej Kraszewski
Succeeded by Maciej Grabowski
Personal details
Born (1968-12-24) 24 December 1968
Nationality Polish
Political party Independent
Alma mater University of Warsaw, École nationale d'administration

Marcin Korolec (born 24 December 1968) is a Polish civil servant and lawyer. He was the minister of environment in Donald Tusk's cabinet from 2011 to 2013 and secretary of state responsible for climate negotiations from 2013 to October 2015. He also served as deputy minister of economy responsible for trade policy in the cabinets of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Jarosław Kaczyński and Donald Tusk between 2005 and 2011.

Early life and education

Korolec was born on 24 December 1968 in Warsaw. He is a son of Jerzy Bartłomiej Korolec (died 2000) – historian, diplomat and liberal-minded Catholic intellectual who serve as Polish ambassador to Slovakia in the early 1990s.[1]

After obtaining MA in law and history at the Warsaw University (1994) he graduated from the French École nationale d'administration (1996).[1][2][3]

Career

In the years 1993-1995 and 1997-1998 he worked as a lawyer in various national and international law firms and in the department of law and treaties at the Polish ministry of foreign affairs.[4]

From 1999 to 2001, Korolec was an advisor to Jan Kułakowski, the Government’s Plenipotentiary for Poland’s EU Accession Negotiations, responsible for the fields of competition policy, free movement of goods and persons, agriculture and consumers protection. In 2001-2004, he was the Minister’s Counsellor at the Office of the Committee for European Integration, in Minister Danuta Hübner’s private office.[2][4] He held a number of lecturing positions at the Polish National School of Public Administration, the Warsaw University, Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, J. Tischner European University in Cracow. His lectures covered i.a. structural funds and coordination of Poland’s European policy.[3]

From 2004 to 2005 Korolec worked as a partner at Euroidea consulting company.[4]

On 23 November 2005, Korolec was appointed by the Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz as the Undersecretary of State in Ministry of Economy. For two governmental terms of Office (2005-2011) he was primarily responsible for horizontal European issues (energy, competitiveness, trade and climate policy). He was also in charge of Poland’s relations with WTO, OECD and UNIDO.[2][4] Since 2010, he has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management.[2]

On 18 November 2011, Korolec was appointed by the President Bronisław Komorowski as the minister of environment in the Second Cabinet of Donald Tusk. He represents Poland in the Council of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and EU-Russia Gas Advisory Council.[2] Since November 2012 he has been a member of the UNIDO Green Industry Platform Advisory Board.[5] He co-led (along with EU Commissioner Connie Hedegaard) the European Union’s delegation at the 2011 UNFCCC UN Conference in Durban. In November 2013, he was removed from office, but was named as the government climate envoy.[6] He served as a representative of Poland on the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) where he was also appointed the Chair of the GCF Ethics and Audit Committee.

Personal life

Married to Olga Korolec. Father of four (sons Jan, Bartłomiej, Krzysztof and daughter Teresa).[3]

Member of the Club of Catholic Intellectuals.[7]

Decorations

Order of the Crown, Belgium

References

  1. 1 2 Dave Keating: Persistent Pole. European Voice, 7 November 2013
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Minister of the Environment". mos.gov.pl. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Marcin Korolec". premier.gov.pl. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Marcin Korolec". Web Archivel. Archived from the original on 4 July 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  5. ↑ "MŚ: Korolec wiceprzewodniczącym Platformy Zielonego Przemysłu (Ministry of Environment: Korolec will be the vice chairman of Green Industry Platform)". wyborcza.biz. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  6. ↑ Ewa Krukowska (20 November 2013). "Korolec Keeps UN Climate Role in Polish Cabinet Reshuffle". Bloomberg. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  7. ↑ Renata Grochal (22 December 2011). "Prawa noga rządu Tuska (Right leg of Tusk’s Cabinet)". Wyborcza. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.