Marzena Rogalska
Principal Advisor - Industrial Decarbonisation
Directorate General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA), European Commission
Marzena Rogalska, a Polish national, has an extensive professional experience of almost 30 years in the area of private investment and international economic relations as well public policy on: energy, industry and development. Throughout her extensive involvement with the intersection of policies and their implementation, she has a substantial track-record of negotiations at senior level, demonstrated solid leadership capacity along with the ability of conceiving innovative and bridge building solutions in the face of complex policy challenges. Moreover, her involvement in wide-ranging activities both at the national and European level, including transatlantic exposure resulted in building trust-based working relationships and allowed her to engage for better mutual understanding and impact with plethora of varied stakeholders. This allows her to bring the value added to her current posting as Principal Adviser on Industrial Decarbonisation at the Directorate-General for Climate Action in the European Commission.
Marzena Rogalska has a long career in public administration. After serving at the European Parliament as an Adviser in Development and Foreign Affairs Committees, she joined the European Commission, where he has had various responsibilities at middle and senior management level as well as a member of Cabinet of Energy Commissioner. She represented the Commission in the OECDs Leading Public Procurement Practitioners’ Forum, and as the EU Research Fellow at Harvard focused on impact investing and competitiveness issues.
In early stages of her career, she served as Deputy Director of the Government Information Centre at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in her home country of Poland, where she successfully co-coordinated the introduction of the educational & pension reforms, and in the Gdansk governors’ office on the international relations team. In the private sector, she was in charge of M&A and investor relations at big corporates in the telecoms and energy sectors, she holds an MA degree in English Literature from the Gdansk University and a postgraduate diploma in International Economic Relations from the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.
