From post-Soviet farming to rewriting the EU's startup rulebook: Meet EU Inc's Iwona Anna Biernat (opens in new tab)

Iwona Anna Biernat grew up on her family’s farm, nestled between the mountainous terrain of southern Poland. “Some of my happiest memories are spending entire days with cows and turkeys,” she tells Sifted. “But I always felt like I didn’t quite belong there. Like I was always looking beyond the horizon.” Born in 1990, Biernat came of age during one of the most dramatic economic and social transitions in modern Europe. As Poland opened up, privatised and remoulded its institutions to fit with ...