BIO

Director of the Delegation of the European Commission to Poland from 2016 to 2021. Prior to that, he served as Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the European Union (2012-2016), and before that was Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Sweden and Germany. From 1992 to 2016, he was an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: deputy director (1998-1999) and director (until 2001) of the Western Europe Department, and director of the Foreign Minister’s Secretariat (in 2001 and from 2005 to 2006).

He is a lecturer at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, at the Paweł Adamowicz Civic Studies in Gdańsk and at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder.

Since 2021, he has been an expert of Team Europe Direct at the European Commission Representation in Poland and a member of the Polish Ambassadors’ Conference, as well as the Program Council of Network PL, an association of Poles employed in international institutions. He was an advisor to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviychuk and a business advisor. Since 2023, he has been vice-president of the Euro-Atlantic Association.
Awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of Germany, the Order of Merit of the Land of Brandenburg, the Cordi Poloniae Medal awarded by the Convention of Polish Organizations in Germany and the Medal of the European Movement in Germany.

He is a recipient of the Dialogue Prize awarded by the Board of the Polish-German and German-Polish Societies and the “Polonicus” Prize of the European Institute of Culture and Media, awarded by the European Association of Polonia in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.

He speaks German, English, French, Russian and Swedish.