POLAND MANAGEMENT
Jarosław Chmielewski
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 one of the broadest professional records on the Blackswan Polish platform. 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 — 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, before successive senior public-sector appointments as Director at Poczta Polska (1999–2000), Director of the Legal Department at ZUS (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 has run his own legal practice — Kancelaria Radcy Prawnego Jarosława Chmielewskiego — since 2008, and was appointed President of the Management Board of ARP Operator Sp. z o.o. in 2018.
He served 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 entry of the Marcegaglia Group — the global steel and metal-construction leader — into the Opole Voivodship, in connection with the extension of the Wałbrzych Special Economic Zone.
Sector Coverage
Mr. Chmielewski's practice is unusually broad. He has led 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 provided long-standing legal counsel to mining and metallurgical sector clients including Fabryka Maszyn i Urządzeń Górniczych Fugor Sp. z o.o. He has acted as plenipotentiary to the Archdiocese of Wrocław, 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, in connection with the recovery of properties lost after 1946 — a body of work directly relevant to Blackswan's Polish land thesis. Across all of these mandates he has served both Polish and international clients, with a reputation for combining commercial fluency with the institutional standing of a former parliamentarian.
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)