Ms. Katarzyna Kacperczyk is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, the Institute of International Relations and the prestigious Columbia University in the City of New York (economics and management). She also studied at the European Institute (law section) at the Saarland University in Germany and within the European Studies Programme at the Warsaw School of Economics.
For many years she held high official and diplomatic positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation and Undersecretary of State (2013-2016) responsible for supporting the interests of the Polish economy and Polish companies.
From 2005 to 2008, she was a diplomat at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations in New York, where she was responsible for the reform of the Organization. She was an adviser in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. Since 2018 she has been employed at the Warsaw School of Economics, where she was responsible for the development of international cooperation and supervised and conducted projects financed from national and EU funds.
Between 2013 and 2015, she was a member of several government committees, including the Committee of the Council of Ministers on Digitalization , Export Insurance Policy Committee and the Committee on Investments of strategic importance to the economy.
She has received numerous distinctions and awards, including the Golden Cross of Merit (2012), the Order of the Crown of the King of Belgium and the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk IV degree of the President of the Czech Republic.