Jan Górecki

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Jan Górecki (18 August 1934 – 6 July 2025) was a Polish economist, university rector and diplomat. He graduated in 1956 from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Faculty of Economics and Agriculture) and then worked in the university’s Department of Economics and Organization of Agricultural Farms. In 1974 he received the Commander's Cross of the First Class of the Badge of Honour for Merit to the Republic of Austria. From 1974 to 1979 he worked as an expert for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. In 1982 he joined the Organizing Committee and the Negotiation Team of the Church Agricultural Foundation. From 1991 to 1995 he chaired the Council for Rural Affairs and Agriculture at the Chancellery of President Lech Wałęsa, and later served on the council at the Chancellery of President Lech Kaczyński. He was Poland’s ambassador to Denmark from 1997 to 2001. Górecki died on 6 July 2025 at the age of 90.