Paweł Robert Kowal (born 22 July 1975 in Rzeszów) is a Polish politician and former Member of the European Parliament.

During his time in the EP, he served as the Chairman of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in the European Parliament.

In December 2013, he joined the new centre-right Poland Together party formed by Jarosław Gowin, the former minister of justice, formerly of Civic Platform.

In his scholarly work, he has taken a special interest in the issues of Poland's and the EU's eastern policy and contemporary history.

In 2000-2001 he served as the Director of the Department of International Relations and European Integration in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Between 20 July 2006 and 22 November 2007, Kowal served as Secretary of State in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in President Jaroslaw Kaczynski's cabinet.

Once in Parliament, Mr. Kowal joined the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), serving as chairman of the parliamentary delegation to Ukraine.

Pawel Kowal left Law and Justice on 22 November 2010 to become a co-founder of Polska Jest Najważniejsza (PJN) (Poland Comes First).

From 1997 to 2005 he worked in the Center for Political Thought, where he managed the Polish State program for Poles in the East.

Kowal has worked with the Jan Nowak-Jeziorański program of the College of Eastern Europe (Kolegium Europy Wschodniej) in Wroclaw since 2007.