Barbara Nowacka

In previous postings at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Barbara Nowacka worked as first secretary and later as counsellor at the Polish Embassy in Berlin and Deputy Director of the European Policy Department for Institutional Affairs and Northern Europe. She has also served as Director of the European Policy Department and Undersecretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs, European Policy and Human Rights. She twice chaired the Citizens’ Committee of the “Let’s Save Women” Legislative Initiative, liberalizing the anti-abortion law. She was awarded a PhD in international law at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Law and Administration (2007). She is a law and classical philology graduate from the University of Silesia in Katowice.