Marzena Czarnecka (born 17 November 1969)[1] is a Polish professor at the University of Economics in Katowice, where she heads the Department of Energy Transformation.

[6][3] Her thesis was titled Obowiązki informacyjne a zachowania konsumentów na rynku energii elektrycznej ('Informational duties and consumer behaviour on the electricity market').

[3] Her work won her a Wielki Orzeł ('Big eagle') award from the University of Warsaw's Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies.

[6][7][5] On 8 December 2023, Civic Platform leader and former prime minister Donald Tusk announced that he intended to appoint Czarnecka as the head of a new Ministry of Industry, to be based in Katowice.

[11][12][13][14] She would be responsible for the creation of the ministry, which would focus on coal mining, before the commercial availability of nuclear power in Poland.