On August 27, 2020 during the plenary meeting of the Polish Bishops 'Conference, Father Leszek Gęsiak SJ was elected the new spokesman of the Polish Bishops' Conference. The spokesman for the Polish Bishops' Conference is elected by the plenary assembly for a five-year term. The role of a spokesman is to maintain contacts with journalists, to facilitate their access to information about the activities of the Conference, and to assist bishops in contacts with the media. The spokesman also manages the Press Office.

Father Leszek Gęsiak SJ was born on May 30, 1965 and joined the Society of Jesus in 1985. He holds a PhD working also as an assistant professor at the Institute of Journalism at the Jesuit University  „Ignatianum” in Krakow. 

He was ordained a priest by Cardinal Franciszek Macharski on June 29, 1996 in Krakow.

He studied theology at the Center Sevres Institute in Paris. For a year he worked as an associate pastor at the Corbeil-Essonnes parish (France).

After returning to Poland, he became the prefect of seminarians at the Jesuit College in Krakow. He made his tertianship in Sydney, Australia, where he also worked with the Polish community at the Polish Jesuit Pastoral Center in Melbourne.

After returning to Europe, he worked at the Catholic Office of Information and European Initiatives in Brussels (Office Catholique d'Information et d'Initiative pour l'Europe - OCIPE), where he cooperated with the institutions of the European Union and the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union (COMECE). He was also the coordinator of the Polish Section of the Catholic European Center in Brussels (Foyer Catholique Européen), the chaplain of the officials of the European Union and NATO, a member of the editorial board of the monthly magazine Europe Infos, and a correspondent of Vatican Radio from Brussels. At that time, he was also a member of the Team of Advisers for the European Union at the Polish Bishops' Conference.

In the years 2003-2006 he was the Socius to the Provincial of the South Poland Province of the Society of Jesus, and then the superior of one of the Jesuit communities in Kraków.

He was the editor-in-chief of the Catholic monthly magazine "Messenger" (2006-2010).

In the years 2012-2017 he was the head of the Polish Section of Vatican Radio.