Beata Rutkiewicz

Beata Katarzyna Rutkiewicz (born 9 February 1977) is a politician, and manager. Since 2023, she is the voivode of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Biography
Beata Rutkiewicz was born on 9 February 1977 in Sierakowice, a village now located in Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.

She had graduated from the Faculty of Ocean Engineering and Ship Technology of the Gdańsk University of Technology, and later received postgraduate degree in government procurement from the University of Gdańsk. In 2022 she had graduated with the degree in human capital management and management psychology from the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw. She had also graduated from the Collegium Humanum with the title of the Master of Business Administration.

She had worked as a specialist of the government procurement in the Agricultural Property Agency in Gdańsk from 2003 to 2005, the municipal office of Pruszcz Gdański from 2005 to 2011, and the office of the municipality of Trąbki Wielkie from 2012 to 2015. In 2015, she became the deputy mayor of city development matters in Wejherowo. In the 2018 local elections, she was elected to be a member of the City Council of Wejherowa, as part of the Krzysztof Hildebrandt electoral committee. However she had declined it, and remained in her previous office.

On 20 December 2023, Rudkiewicz was appointed as the voivode of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

In 2024, she had appointed Radosław Król, voivode of the Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship, to the management council of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. In turn, he had appointed her to its equivalent in Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship. After the matter was publicised by the news media, both had resigned from those functions.