Barbara Nowacka

Barbara Nowacka was born on May 10, 1975 in Warsaw.

She is a graduate of the Tadeusz Reytan High School VI in Warsaw. She is an IT specialist by profession. Graduated from the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw and completed an MBA at the French Institute of Management. From 2004 to 2009 she served as director of marketing, and from 2009 to 2019 she was chancellor of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology.

President of the Inicjatywa Polska party, which has been co-founding the Civic Coalition since 2018. Member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland for the 9th and 10th terms, elected in the Gdynia-Słupsk constituency. In the ninth term of the Sejm, she worked, among other things, in the Education and Youth Committee and was vice-chair of the Subcommittee on Science and Higher Education.

She is vice president of the Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka Foundation. She worked as a volunteer at the Women’s Helpline established by the Federation for Women and Family Planning. Member of the Program Council of the Congress of Women. She twice chaired the Citizens’ Committee for the “Save the Women” legislative initiative liberalizing the anti-abortion law. She was also a member of the Citizens’ Committee “Yes to in vitro.” She is a co-founder of Campus – the Future of Poland, Europe’s largest socio-political festival for young activists.

In 2016, she was named to Foreign Policy’s annual FP Top 100 Global Thinkers list, and in 2017 – together with the Save the Women committee – she received the Simone de Beauvoir International Award “For Women’s Freedom.” In 2020, she was awarded the National Order of Merit, the fourth French decoration in the state’s seniority hierarchy.

On December 13, 2023, she was appointed Poland’s Minister of Education.