Agnieszka Rochon was born in Krakow in 1963 where she studied German at the Jagiellonian University (1982-89). For three terms, 1988-89, she studied at the Technical University in Berlin where she saw first hand the fall of the Berlin wall and the unification of Germany. From 1990 to 2001 she lived mostly in Berlin and worked as a freelance politics lecturer for a number of organisations and institutions. From 1996-2010 Agnieszka Rochon was employed by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, first in Gottingen and later Berlin dealing with central Europe and from 2001-10 as head of the Warsaw office.