Joanna Zembaczyńska-Świątek - graduate of the University of Warsaw and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. Associated with the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development since 2004, initially as a specialist, section manager, then as department director.

Since 2016, she served as Director of the Program Implementation Coordination Department at PARP. She was responsible for coordinating activities related to the Agency's role as an intermediary institution in programs implemented by the Agency and the role of Program Operator under the 3rd edition of the Norwegian and EEA Funds. Her tasks included developing solutions for the Programs implemented by the Agency, coordinating work on program agreements, coordinating work on program documents, guidelines and legal acts related to the implemented programs, monitoring and reporting on the implemented programs and managing procedures at the Agency related to the implemented programs.

In 2003-2004 she worked in the Department of European Social Fund Management at the then Ministry of Economy and Labor.

She is a graduate in International Relations from the University of Warsaw. She also completed postgraduate studies in EU pre-accession and structural programs and project management at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.