Adam Wojciech Burakowski (born 26 July 1977 in

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) is a Polish

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, political scientist and

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, since December 2017 serving as an

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Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Life

Adam Burakowski graduated from

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

Faculty of History (2001). In 2007 he defended his

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thesis on

Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu ( , ; – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He was ...

(supervised by Andrzej Paczkowski) and, in 2015,

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. He is the professor of the Institute of Political Studies of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of ...

. Graduate of the Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhji High School. From 2006 to 2017 he worked for the national broadcaster Polskie Radio, holding various positions related to the international affairs. He was a Polish representative to the

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. Simultaneously, he was involved in the Euranet. At that time he has been cooperating with Centre for European Studies of

Jawaharlal Nehru University Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and r ...

, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca,

Masaryk University Masaryk University (MU) ( cs, Masarykova univerzita; la, Universitas Masarykiana Brunensis) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the seco ...

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. In December 2017 he became the

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Ambassador to

. He is accredited to six other countries, i.e.

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

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Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

Maldives Maldives (, ; dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ, translit=Dhivehi Raajje, ), officially the Republic of Maldives ( dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާ, translit=Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa, label=none, ), is an archipelag ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. He speaks

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and Russian. He is married and has four children.

Works

* ''Europeizacja partii politycznych i grup interesu w krajach Partnerstwa Wschodniego i kandydujących do Unii Europejskiej'', Warszawa, 2015 (with Jakub Wódka and Agnieszka K. Cianciara). * ''System polityczny współczesnej Rumunii, Warszawa 2014'' * ''Indie: od kolonii do mocarstwa 1857–2013'', Warszawa, 2013 (with Krzysztof Iwanek) * ''Geniusz Karpat. Dyktatura Nicolae Ceaușescu 1965–1989'', Warszawa 2009 * ''1989 – Jesień Narodów'', Warszawa 2010 (with Aleksander Gubrynowicz, Paweł Ukielski) * ''Kraj smutny pełen humoru. Dzieje Rumunii po 1989 roku'', Warszawa 2012 (with Marius Stan) * ''System polityczny współczesnej Rumunii'', Warszawa-Kraków 2014

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burakowski, Adam 1977 births Ambassadors of Poland to India Living people Diplomats from Warsaw Polish Academy of Sciences faculty 21st-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Polish political scientists University of Warsaw alumni