Witold Waszczykowski (Polish Witold Waszczykowski) – Polish historian, diplomat, politician. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland.
Place of Birth. Education. Born May 5, 1957 in Piotrkow Trybunalski. In 1980 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Lodz. In 1991, Faculty of International Relations at the University of Oregon (USA).
In 1992-1993 he completed postgraduate studies in international security and arms control at the Geneva Center for Security Policy in Geneva. In 1993 he received his doctorate in the humanities.
Career. In 1981-1987 he worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Lodz.
Since 1992, Waszczykowski has worked in the structures of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, as a senior expert in the Department of the United Nations System and the Department of European Institutions, and since 1996 he has worked as Deputy Director of the Department of European Institutions and the Department for Security Policy.
From 1999 to 2002 he was the Polish Ambassador to Iran.
From 1997 to 1999 he worked at the Polish representation in NATO in Brussels.
From November 4, 2005 to August 11, 2008 Waszczykowski was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland. At the same time, he simultaneously served as the chief negotiator with the United States on the issue of missile defense.
From August 27, 2008 to July 6, 2010, he was deputy head of the National Security Bureau. In the parliamentary elections in 2011, he was elected to the Seimas. In the 2015 parliamentary elections, as a candidate from the Law and Justice party, he won in the Sieradz constituency.
On November 16, 2015, he took up the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs in the office of Beata Szydlo.
On January 9, 2018, during the formation of a new government of Poland, Waszczykowski was replaced by Jacek Czaputowicz as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland.
04/30/2021