BIO

Deputy President of the Management Board

Artur Lorkowski is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics and the National School of Public Administration.

In 2018-2019, he was the Special Envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Climate. In 2013-2017 he was the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Vienna. He has been a member of the foreign service since 2010, and until 2013 he was the deputy director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for energy security and climate change. Previously, from 2003, he was the deputy director in the Office of the Committee for European Integration responsible for sectoral policies, where he started working in 2001.

Artur Lorkowski has been involved in issues related to climate change since 2006. He advised the President of COP24 during the UNFCCC climate summit in Katowice in 2018 and worked for the Climate Summit of the UN Secretary General in 2019.

Currently, as the Vice President of the Management Board of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, he supervises the work of the Departments: Adaptation to Climate Change, External Funds, Zero-Emission Transport, Monitoring, Restructuring and Debt Collection as well as the Departments: LIFE, Innovation and Public Aid.