Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka (; born 19 May 1949) is a Polish lawyer, journalist, and former politician who served as secretary of state in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland under Lech Kaczyński between 2008 and 2010. In 2010, Junczyk-Ziomecka was appointed Consul General of the Republic of Poland in New York, a position she held until 2014. On January 19, 2015, after completing the consular mission, she became the president of the Jan Karski Educational Foundation. Biography After studying law and postgraduate journalism studies at the University of Warsaw, she worked as a journalist. During martial law, she was banned from practicing as a journalist, and then left for the United States. In the 1980s, she was the editor-in-chief of Dziennik Polski. Involved in cooperation between the Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian communities in the United States. She returned to Poland in 1993. She was involved in the creation of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews "POLIN". From 2001, for five years, she was the director for development and deputy director of this emerging institution. On January 19, 2006, she became Undersecretary of State, and on April 23, 2008, Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Kaczyński. She supervised the Office of Social Initiatives and the Office of Citizens' Letters and Opinions of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. On February 24, 2010, it was canceled. On March 1, 2010, she took the position of Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City. She served as consul general until 2014.During her tenure as consul general, the Karski program was inaugurated in the United States, and the Polish-American group Jan Karski Centennial Campaign was established, thanks to which Jan Karski was posthumously honored with the highest civilian decoration of the United States, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2012, the Consulate General also inaugurated the annual Jan Karski Spirit Award, awarded by the Jan Karski Educational Foundation. Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka became the first laureate of this award, followed by prominent American politicians: Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power (2013) and Senator John McCain (2014). Thanks to consular activities aimed at popularizing knowledge about Jan Karski, in March 2013 Georgetown University Press published in the USA - 69 years after the first publication - Jan Karski's book "Story of a Secret State". During Ewa