Michał Baranowski
Council Member, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Development and Technology
Michał Baranowski is a political scientist, think tank analyst, and author of numerous publications on transatlantic relations, European policies, and the European security order.
He was born in Warsaw, where he graduated from the Jan Zamoyski High School. He studied economics and political science at Mercer University in the U.S., at Oxford, and at Maastricht University, where he earned a master’s degree in European Public Affairs in 2005.
In 2005, he began his career as a think tank researcher and analyst at the Brussels office of GMF, an independent American think tank.
A longtime employee of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a transatlantic foundation. From 2005 to 2011, he worked at the GMF’s Brussels office, where he focused on transatlantic cooperation, with a particular emphasis on Central Europe and the Eastern Partnership countries.
From 2008 to 2011, he worked in Washington, D.C., leading a project on transatlantic trade. In 2011, he opened GMF’s Warsaw office, which at the time was the first Western think tank to have a permanent office in Warsaw. From 2011 to 2021, he expanded the Foundation’s operations in Poland and across the eastern flank of the European Union. In 2021, he became Managing Director of GMF East, whose activities covered Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, the V4, and Romania, where his team prepared a report on a Marshall Plan for Ukraine.
He frequently appeared in Polish and international media, analyzing the economic and international situation.
A mountain lover, cyclist, and avid free diver. He is married and has three children.
