Janusz Cieszyński
Secretary of State, Government Plenipotentiary for Cyber Security
Manager with significant experience in digitisation.
From 2018 to 2020 – Deputy Minister of Health responsible for informatisation of the health sector, including supervision over the Centre of Health Information Systems. During this period, projects such as the Patient's Internet Account, e-prescription and e-referral were successfully implemented.
Since April 2021 – Vice-Chairman of the Council for Digital Affairs. With their knowledge and experience, members of the Council support, among other things, the Council of Ministers Committee for Digital Affairs. The Council for Digital Affairs provides opinions on strategic documentation and other documents related to digitisation, communications and the development of the information society.
From November 2020 to 7 June 2021 – the first Deputy Mayor of the city of Chełm. He was responsible, for example, for raising funds for investments and supervised the preparation of a plan for the transformation of the city's heating plant in connection with the necessity to meet EU climate targets.
He worked as an advisor of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at the Ministry of Development and the Ministry of Finance and headed the Department of Small and Medium Enterprises at the Ministry of Development in 2016-2017.
He ran a company providing business and legal advice to entrepreneurs in the SME sector.
From 2009 to 2014, he worked for one of the largest companies in the telecommunications area.
The Secretary of State for Digital Affairs in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister performs tasks assigned by the Minister competent with regard to informatisation. He also coordinates, in terms of content, the implementation of tasks within the governmental administration responsible for informatisation.
The Government Plenipotentiary for Cyber Security coordinates activities and the implementation of the Government's policy with respect to ensuring cyber security in the Republic of Poland.