POLAND MANAGEMENT
Board Advisor
Blackswan Poland Management Sp. z o.o.
jaroslaw.chmielewski@blacksn.com · jarek@blacksn.com
+48 796 986 444
Jarosław Chmielewski serves as Board Advisor, bringing to the Blackswan Polish platform an impressive by national standards professional record. Across more than three decades, he has combined a senior public-sector career — as former Senator of the Republic of Poland and former President of ARP Operator, one of the State-controlled investment agencies — with active legal practice across administrative, energy, real-estate, mining and corporate law, advising ecclesiastical institutions, foreign industrial investors and Polish state entities in parallel.
Background
Mr. Chmielewski began his career in 1998 as Director of Privatisation at the Opole Voivodship Office, with subsequent senior public-sector appointments as Director at Poczta Polska (Polish Post) (1999–2000), Director of the Legal Department at ZUS (Polish Social Security Administration) (2001), and Director and Plenipotentiary of the Management Board at PFRON (2001–2002). From 2003 to 2005 he led the Wrocław branch of Piszcz i Wspólnicy and oversaw the privatisation of primary and specialist healthcare entities in Częstochowa. He maintains his own legal practice since 2008.
The pinnacle of his political career was the service as Senator of the Republic of Poland in the 6th term (2005–2007), sitting on the National Economy Committee and the Legislative Committee, and concurrently as a Member of the National Council of the Judiciary. During his parliamentary term he played an active role in the introduction to Poland of the Marcegaglia Group — the global steel and metal-construction leader.
Sector Coverage
Mr. Chmielewski's impressively broad practice covers real-estate investment processes, structured public-private partnership programmes, and restructured energy-sector entities — including the unbundling of grid operators from distributors as part of Poland's energy market consolidation. In foreign direct investment, he advised Italian industrial investors on their entry into the Wałbrzych Special Economic Zone (2008–2011) and brought the Israeli education-technology group Degem into Poland, supporting its Multi-Centre rollout in Wrocław, Warsaw, Częstochowa and Jawor (2005–2012). In renewable energy, he advised on deployments built on leading German technology, including the Solar Park Zamość partnership, and has prepared approximately 1,300 hectares of Polish land for photovoltaic investment. He has also been advising for years mining and metallurgical sector clients including Fabryka Maszyn i Urządzeń Górniczych Fugor Sp. z o.o.
Of particular significance to Blackswan's Polish land thesis is the impressive body of Mr. Chmielewski's work for the Polish Church in the last 15 years, which made him into one of the most trusted legal and strategic advisers of the Polish Church hierarchy. While acting for over a decade as plenipotentiary and legal counsel to the Archdioceses of Wrocław and Warmia and the Dioceses of Opole and Gliwice, the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth, the Salvatorian Fathers, and the Cathedral Parish of the Holy Cross in Opole, Jarek Chmielewski has become Polish Church's main adviser on claims for restitution of Church properties seized illegally by communists after 1945, and coordinates and leads the ongoing negotiations and litigation efforts in this area.
Education & Credentials
- Master of Laws — Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Wrocław (1995)
- Doctoral candidate (open thesis) — Institute of History of State and Law, University of Wrocław
- Court training (1995–1997); Legal Advisors training (2003–2005)
- Member, National Council of the Judiciary (2005–2007)
Languages
Polish (native) · English (working)