Magdalena Bem-Andrzejewska graduated with a degree in French philology from the University of Warsaw, she completed doctoral studies in the field of management and marketing at the Warsaw School of Economics and studies in the field of European integration - a combined cycle of the National School of Public Administration and Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris. A manager with twenty years of experience in public administration, specializing in issues related to R&D in the context of international cooperation, communication and promotion. Representative of the Republic of Poland in many international bodies, incl. OECD committees, European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, Strategic Forum for International S&T Cooperation, and High Council at the European University Institute in Florence. As director at Ministry of Science and Higher Education, she was responsible, inter alia, for creating many initiatives to popularize science and comprehensive communication of the cross-cutting reform of higher education and science, also in international relations. From 2020, director of the National Contact Point for Horizon Europe, operating within the structures of the National Centre for Research and Development. She coordinates the Polish support system, consisting of the NCP and a network of Horizontal Contact Points in 12 key academic centers.