Henryk Kowalczyk

Henryk Kowalczyk (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. 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.