Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz (born October 26, 1970) is a Polish sociologist and the current Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy since 2023. She was formerly the Ambassador of Poland to Russia from 2014 to 2016. She became the first woman ambassador of Poland in Moscow since the establishment of Polish–Russian relations, between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the 16th century. Pełczyńska-Nałęcz previously served as Undersecretary of State at the Polish Foreign Ministry from 2012 to 2014.
Biography Pełczyńska-Nałęcz graduated from the Institute of Sociology of Warsaw University in 1994. Then she worked at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences where in 1999 she defended her Ph.D. Later she became the deputy director at the Center for Eastern Studies and the head of its Russian Department.
In an interview with a Russian news agency, Pełczyńska-Nałęcz said the return of the wreck of the Polish presidential plane which crashed in 2010 would be "of symbolic significance for Poland".
She was dismissed from her position as Ambassador of Poland to the Russian Federation by President Andrzej Duda in 2016.
Personal life Pełczyńska-Nałęcz speaks English and Russian. She is married and has three children.
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