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Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of State Assets
He was born on 6 November 1969 in Warsaw. He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw. He obtained his master’s degree at the Faculty of History of the University. He also completed postgraduate studies in public administration management at the L. Koźmiński Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management in Warsaw.

He started his professional career at the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation. From 1998 to 2004, he worked in the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Repression heading the Judicial Department. He was the head of the Register Office of the Warsaw City Hall, and then deputy mayor of the Warsaw district of Śródmieście. In January 2006, he took up the office of 1st Deputy Voivode, and in February 2007 – of the Mazovian Voivode.

From December 2007, he cooperated with the late President Lech Kaczyński – at first, as his advisor. In November 2009, he was appointed Secretary of State and Deputy Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. He served in this capacity until July 2010. In the same year, in local elections, he was elected councillor of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship Assembly.

In the 2011 parliamentary elections, he was elected a Member of the Sejm of the 7thTerm. He served as Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Local Self-Government and Regional Policy and was a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs.

In the next parliamentary elections held in the autumn of 2015, he obtained a mandate as a Member of the Sejm of the eighth term. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Public Finance, Chairman of the Standing Subcommittee on the System of Local Government and was a member of the Committee on Local Government and Regional Policy.

On 9 January 2018, he was appointed Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers, and then Secretary of the Council of Ministers.

On 4 June 2019, he was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister. In the parliamentary elections, he won a mandate as a member of the Sejm of the ninth term. On 15 November, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State Assets.