Barbara Skrzypek

Barbara Skrzypek (Polish: [barˈba.ra ˈskʂɘ.pɛk]; 8 January 1959 – 15 March 2025) was a Polish government official, who from 1990 to 2020, was the secretary, and one of the closest co-workers, of Jarosław Kaczyński, chairperson of the Law and Justice party. In 2018, she was ranked at the 41st place on the list of the 50 most influential people in Poland by the news magazine Wprost. Later, she was a board member in the Lech Kaczyński Institute, an organisation which is the main shareholder of the company Srebrna.

Life and career

Barbara Skrzypek was born on 8 January 1959.

From 1980 to 1989, she was a clerk in the Office of the Council of Ministers. There, among other functions, she was a senior office clerk and senior statistician in the Secret Chancellery and also worked in the Prime Minister office and in the office of Michał Janiszewski, the ministry director. Miała dostęp do tajnych akt PRL. She later began working in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. In 1990, she became the secretary, and one of the closest co-workers of Jarosław Kaczyński, chairperson of the Law and Justice party. She was also a head of the party chancery and director of the party presidium office.

She had retired from her position as a secretary in 2020, after working with Kaczyński for almost 30 years. The same year, she became a member of the board of the Lech Kaczyński Institute, the main shareholder in the Srebrna company. Skrzypek herself owned two shares in said company, with her son holding another.