Mikołaj Dowgielewicz is State Secretary for European Affairs and Economic Policy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Representative of the Government responsible for the government bodies preparations for the Polish EU Council Presidency. He worked at the Political Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1998-2000) and then as the Adviser to the President of the Commission of European Law of the Sejm - Lower House of the Polish Parliament (2000-2001) and as the Head of Academic Service at the College of Europe (2002-2003). In 2003 he began his work in Brussels as the Adviser to the President of the European Parliament, Mr. Pat Cox. In 2004 he took the post of the European Commission Spokesperson for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy and later, in 2007, began work in the Cabinet of the Vice-President of the European Commission, Ms Margot Wallström. From  December 2007 to 31st December 2009 he was the Secretary of the Committee for European Integration and Secretary of State at the Office of the Committee for European Integration.