Mateusz Gniazdowski Ph.D. | |
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9th Poland Ambassador to the Czech Republic | |
Assumed office 16 September 2022 | |
Preceded by | Mirosław Jasiński |
Personal details | |
Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Warsaw, Poland |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
Profession | political scientist |
Awards | |
Mateusz Gniazdowski (born 1974 in Warsaw)[1] is a Polish political scientist and since 2022 he has served as the ambassador to the Czech Republic.
In 2000, Gniazdowski graduated with honours from Political Science at the University of Warsaw.[1][2] He received his doctoral degree from the Slovak Academy of Sciences.[1][3] From 2004 to 2010 he worked at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM).[1] He was deputy head of the PISM Research Office[4] and coordinator of the programme for bilateral relations in Europe.[5] In 2010, he joined the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW). He was head of the Central European Department. Between 15 February 2016 and September 2022 he was Deputy Director there.[6] On 22 August 2022 he was nominated as Polish ambassador to the Czech Republic.[7] He took his post on 16 September 2022,[8] and presented his credentials to President Miloš Zeman on 21 September 2022.[9]
He specializes in the internal and foreign policy and regional cooperation of the Central European countries, especially the Visegrad Group; public diplomacy; historical issues in foreign policy.[1]
He was chairman of the Policy Board of the Czech-Polish Forum,[10] a member of the Polish-Slovak Commission for the Humanities at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland, and at the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of Slovakia. He was a member of the Editorial Committee of the Polish Diplomatic Review [Polski Przegląd Dypomatyczny], and co-coordinator of the Polish part of the Think Visegrad – V4 Think Tank Platform.[1]
He is married with two daughters.[8]