Urszula Sara Zielińska (born 3 October 1977) is a Polish social and political activist, member of the

Sejm The Sejm (), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (), is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the Polish People' ...

, and co-chair of The Greens. Since 2023, she serves as the Deputy Minister of the Climate and Environment.

Biography

Zielińska graduated in management and marketing from the Academy of Leon Koźmiński in Warsaw. She obtained her master's degree in 2003. She lived and worked, among others, in Germany and Great Britain. She became a marketing manager for a company. She is fluent in English and German. She participated in protests against the logging of the

Białowieża Forest Białowieża Forest is a large forest complex on the border between Poland and Belarus. It is one of the last and the largest remaining part of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain. The forest is home to more ...

and was involved in the Save Women project. She took part in the protests against Polish judiciary reforms. She is a member of the national board of the Green Party and the board of the Warsaw Center group. She is the author of the program entitled "''Poland without smog"'', proposed by the Green Party. Zielińska unsuccessfully ran in the 2019 European Parliament election in Poland, obtaining 7,783 votes. In the

2019 Polish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 13 October 2019. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate of Poland, Senate were elected. The ruling right-wing Law and Justice (Poland), Law and Justice (PiS) won re-election to a ...

, she was elected as a member of the Sejm for the 9th term on the list of the Civic Coalition as part of the Green Party (she received 7,536 votes in Warsaw I constituency).

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