Michał Tadeusz Kurtyka (born July 20, 1973) is a Polish manager, economist, and civil servant who served as the Minister of Climate and Environment until October 2021.

He was also a scholar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, America, studying quantum optics.

He was a lecturer in the field of economics, market organization, change management and industrial strategy at the University of Warsaw, the Collegium Civitas and the Oxford Programme On Modern Poland.

He later oversaw the modernisation of Polish and international enterprises by providing them with advice with regard to the integration to European and global markets.

He also supervised the state’s participation in the biggest Polish oil and gas companies, such as PGNiG, Lotos and Orlen.

[5] On October 6, 2020, after the government’s reconstruction, he was appointed to the office of Minister of the newly established Ministry of Climate and Environment.

The appointment of Kurtyka, as a relatively anonymous bureaucrat, marked a break from the diplomatic norms of previous climate change conferences, where more senior politicians have traditionally presided.