Education
University of Warsaw.
University of Warsaw.
She succeeded Wojciech Zajączkowski in the fall of 2014. She became the first woman ambassador of Poland in Moscow since the establishment of Polish–Russian relations between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand-Duchy of Moscovy in the 16th century. Pełczyńska-Nałęcz previously served as Undersecretary of State at the Polish Foreign Ministry.
Pełczyńska-Nałęcz graduated from the Institute of Sociology of Warsaw University in 1994.
Then she worked at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Later she became the deputy director at the Center for Eastern Studies and the head of its Russian Department.
In an interview to a Russian news agency, Pełczyńska-Nałęcz said the return of the wreck of the Polish presidential plane which crashed in 2010 would be "of symbolic significance for Poland". Pełczyńska-Nałęcz speaks English and Russian.