Ignacy Niemczycki was born in Warsaw on 14 December 1983. He is a Polish government administration official, farmer, and NGO activist. In 2024–2025, he held the offices of Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and of Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Bocconi University in Milan (2005), a master’s degree in political science from Lancaster University (2007) as well as a master’s degree in sociology from SWPS University (2010). He also completed postgraduate studies in agriculture at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (2016) and in organic farming at the University of Warmia and Mazury (2017). He was awarded the Landecker Democracy Fellowship and a scholarship from the US Department of State. Between 2008 and 2012, he worked at the Office of the Committee for European Integration, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, and the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the European Union, where he focused on the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and EU funds negotiations. Involved with non-governmental organisations. He coordinated the Free Belarus Initiative between 2006 and 2009. In 2017, he founded and coordinated Front Europejski, a coalition of social organisations. In 2020, he became President of the Bronisław Geremek Foundation and Vice-President of the Akcja Demokracja foundation