H.E. Mr. Marcin Korolec
Special Envoy for Climate Change, Poland
Polish civil servant and lawyer. He was the minister of environment in Donald Tusk's cabinet from 2011 to 2013. He previously served as deputy minister of economy between 2005 and 2011. 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. From 1999 to 2001, Korolec was an advisor to the Government’s Plenipotentiary for Poland’s EU Accession Negotiations. In 2001-2004, he was the Minister’s Counsellor at the Office of the Committee for European Integration. From 2004 to 2005 Korolec worked as a partner at Euroidea consulting company. On 23 November 2005, Korolec was appointed by the Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz as the Undersecretary of State in Ministry of Economy. On 18 November 2011, Korolec was appointed by the President Bronisław Komorowski as the minister of environment in the Second Cabinet of Donald Tusk. In November 2013, he was removed from office, but was named as the government climate envoy.