Irena Niedźwiecka-Filipiak is an architect with specialty in landscape architecture. Since 2014 she has been leading the team developing the project of the optimal  layout design for the green infrastructure within the borders of the Wrocław Functional Area and its implementation principles and guidelines. The work was commissioned by the Institute for Territorial Development. Besides that for over 20 years she has been conducting research into rural transformations in Poland . Professor at Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences. Since 2010 head of the Institute of Landscape Architecture and head of the Unit for Rural Landscape Protection and Management WUELS. President of the Association of Polish Landscape Architects since 2016.