Jacek Czaputowicz
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Professor Jacek Czaputowicz graduated from the Warsaw Central School of Planning and Statistics. He
completed his Ph.D. thesis in political science at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of
S ie es PAN. He o tai ed his ha ilitatio i hu a ities at the U i ersity of Warsa ’s
Faculty of Political
Science and International Studies. He also completed postgraduate studies at foreign universities (Oxford,
among others).
In the 1970s and 1980s he was an activist of the democratic opposition. His activities had him interned on
13 December 1981 (he was released on 25 November 1982) and imprisoned in 1986 (he was released after
seven months on amnesty). In 1988-1990 he was a member of the Civic Committee to the Chairman of the
Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union Solidarity (NFZZ
Solidar ość).
He joined the MFA in 1990. He was Deputy Director and then Director of the Consular and Emigration
Department in 1990-1992. From 1998 to 2006 he was Deputy Head of the Civil Service. In 2006-2008 he
was in charge of the Department of Strategy and Foreign Policy Planning at the MFA. From 2008 to 2012 he
headed the National School of Public Administration. From January to September 2017 he was at the helm
of the MFA’s Diplo ati A ade y. He took harge of legal a d treaty affaires as MFA u dersecretary
of
state in September 2017.
I 2007, Ja ek Czaputo i z as a arded the Offi er’s Cross of the Order of Polo ia Restituta a d i
February 2017 he was decorated with the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity for his achievements in
ad a i g Pola d’s i dependence
and sovereignty and ensuring respect for human rights in the Polish
People’s Repu li .
He is the author of over 100 articles and academic monographs, including:
Teorie stosunków
iędzy arodo ych. Krytyka i syste atyzacja Theories of i ter atio al
relations. Criticism and
systemization),
PWN 2007;
Bezpieczeńst o iędzy arodo e. Współczes e ko cepcje I ter atio al
security. Modern concepts),
PWN 2012;
Su ere ość So ereig ty
, PISM 2013,
Teorie integracji
europejskiej
(Theories
of European Integration),
PWN 2018. He is a researcher at the Institute of European
Studies at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw, specialising
in European integration studies.