Artur Lorkowski is currently the Director of the Energy Community Secretariat in Vienna, Austria. Over the past twenty years, Lorkowski has worked a variety of jobs including serving as Vice-President of the Management Board for the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Poland, Special Envoy for the Climate of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Ambassador of Poland to Austria, Deputy Director for Energy Security and Climate Change at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland’s Department of the EU Economics, and Deputy Director for EU Sectoral Policies in the Office of the Committee for European Integration.