Katarzyna Lubnauer

Katarzyna Anna Lubnauer (née Libudzisz; born 24 July 1969) is a Polish politician, feminist, mathematician and academic teacher. She is a member of the Polish Parliament and a former leader of the liberal Modern (.Nowoczesna) political party. In 2023, she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of National Education.

Early life and education

She was born Katarzyna Libudzisz on 24 July 1969 in Łódź to mother Zdzisława, a professor of microbiology and father Jerzy, a chemist. Her family had been living in Łódź since the second half of the 19th century. She graduated from the Tadeusz Kościuszko High School No. 3 in Łódź (Polish: III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Tadeusza Kościuszki w Łodzi) as well as the University of Łódź. She briefly worked as a school teacher before she decided to continue her studies at the University of Łódź where she became a lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics. She obtained her PhD degree in mathematics in 2001 after she wrote her doctoral dissertation entitled Limit Theorems in Quantum Probability. She later assumed the position of assistant professor at the Department of Probability Theory and Statistics.

Political career

In 1993 she worked for the Democratic Union and in 1994, the Freedom Union where she was one of the local leaders of the party in Łódź. Between 1998 and 2002, she was a member of the Łódź city council. In 2001, she was one of the candidates for the head of Freedom Union in Łódź. She was a member of the last General Board of the Freedom Union and in 2005 she was one of the leaders of the newly reformed Democratic Party – demokraci.pl. She unsuccessfully stood for election to the Sejm in 2001 and 2005.