Michal Tadeusz Kurtyka is a Polish economist, and civil servant who currently serves as Secretary of State in Poland's Ministry of Energy and Environment Ministry.
He is the deputy minister to the Minister for Energy and Minister for the Environment, although unlike either of those ministers, he is a technocrat and non-partisan figure.Kurtyka served as President of the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice.
The Katowice Climate Change Conference served to effect the practical implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.