Marcin Korolec

Lawyer, long-standing advisor, government administration worker, and negotiator. Marcin Korolec has been a member of the European Investment Bank’s Environment and Climate Advisory Board since July 2021, Director of the Green Economy Institute since August 2020, and President of Electric Vehicles Promotion Foundation since September 2016. He is also a member of the European Climate Foundation Supervisory Board (2024), the Executive Board of Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales – Paris (2024), the Supervisory Board of MevaEnergy (2020), InnoEnergy (2019), and Transport and Environment as Vice Chair (2019).

He was the Polish Climate Minister from 2014 to 2015, Minister of the Environment from 2011 to 2013 and Minister for Trade, Internal Market from 2005 – 2011. Between 2005 and 2015, he represented Poland in more than 120 European Union Council Ministers Meetings, including on Climate, Competitiveness, Energy, Environment and Trade. Marcin Korolec was President of COP19 in 2013 and also co-led the European Union’s delegation at the 2011 UNFCCC Conference in Durban.

Involved in managing institutions concerned with environment and climate protection, both Polish and international, he represented Poland in the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF): Board Member – Chair of the Ethics and Audit Committee (2013 – 2015). He established the Green Weimar Triangle (cooperation between Environment Ministers from France, Germany, and Poland in 2013), and he was a member of the UNIDO Green Industry Platform Advisory Board (2013-2015) and a member of the Supervisory Board at the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management from 2010 – 2011. In 2011, he represented Poland in the Council of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Between 1998 and 2004, he worked at the Office of the Committee for European Integration in the cabinet of Ministers Jan Kułakowski and Danuta Hübner, where he supervised preparations for Poland’s accession to the EU in areas of negotiation as free movement of goods and people, agriculture, competition, and consumer protection policies.

He is the author of scientific publications about Polish accession negotiations and an academic lecturer. Marcin Korolec is fluent in English and French, and studied at Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) – Promotion Marc Bloch (1997), and at Warsaw University – Law Faculty (1995).