Henryk Kowalczyk

Henryk Kowalczyk
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
In office 26 October 2021 – 21 June 2023
President	Andrzej Duda
Prime Minister	Mateusz Morawiecki
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
In office 26 October 2021 – 6 April 2023
Prime Minister	Mateusz Morawiecki
Preceded by	Grzegorz Puda
Succeeded by	Robert Telus
Minister of Environment
In office 9 January 2018 – 15 November 2019
Prime Minister	Mateusz Morawiecki
Preceded by	Jan Szyszko
Succeeded by	Michał Kurtyka
Minister of State Treasury Acting
In office 16 September 2016 – 31 December 2016
President	Andrzej Duda
Prime Minister	Beata Szydło Mateusz Morawiecki
Preceded by	Dawid Jackiewicz
Succeeded by	Jacek Sasin
Minister of the Council of Ministers
In office 16 November 2015 – 9 January 2018
President	Andrzej Duda
Prime Minister	Beata Szydło Mateusz Morawiecki
Member of the Sejm
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 September 2005
Constituency	18 – Siedlce
Personal details
Born	(1956-07-15) 15 July 1956 (age 68)
Nationality	Polish
Political party	Law and Justice
Alma mater	University of Warsaw

Henryk Kowalczyk (Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk kɔˈvalt͡ʂɨk] ^ⓘ; born 15 July 1956) is a Polish politician and teacher, who is serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development since 2021.

He was first elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005. In 2006–2007, secretary of state in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. From 2015 to 2018 he was a minister without portfolio in the cabinet of Beata Szydło. At the same time, he was the chair of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers and vice-chair of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers.^[1] In 2016, he was the acting Minister of State Treasury. In the years 2018–2019, he served as the Minister of the Environment in the first government of Mateusz Morawiecki. In 2021, he was designated as the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.