Emilewicz was born in
Kraków in 1974 to Antoni and Zdzisława Szyler. Emilewicz studied
political science at the
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, graduating in 1998. She began a collaboration with the
Center for Political Thought in 1995. During the late 1990s, she joined the association, where she organised discussions involving
Lech Kaczyński,
Ludwik Dorn and
Jan Rokita, and met
Jarosław Gowin, the editor-in-chief of the monthly
Znak, who became her political mentor. She also became an active member of
Opus Dei. In 1997, she completed a journalist's internship under
Robert Mazurek at the conservative daily '''', edited by
Tomasz Wołek. She obtained a
postgraduate diploma from
Wadham College, Oxford in the same year. when she became the head of the
Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology in the government of
Mateusz Morawiecki. Emilewicz retained the office during its reorganization into
Ministry of Development upon the following election in 2019 and thus entered Morawiecki's second cabinet. Meanwhile, in 2017, she was one of the founders of the
Agreement, a party of which she shortly became a Vice Leader. In 2020, Emilewicz was sworn in as
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, simultaneously maintaining her so-far ministerial office, following Jarosław Gowin stepping down as Deputy Prime Minister and her candidature being proposed by Gowin's
Agreement party instead. ==Publications==