Filip Tadeusz Grzegorzewski is a Polish and European

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or interna ...

, since 2019 he serves as Head of the

European Economic and Trade Office The European Economic and Trade Office (EETO; ) is the representative office of European Union (EU) in Taiwan. Its counterpart body in the EU is the Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium. The European Union does not have diplomati ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

Career

Filip Grzegorzewski, representing the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are located primarily in Europe, Europe. The union has a total area of ...

, is a senior diplomat in the

European External Action Service The European External Action Service (EEAS) is the diplomatic service and combined foreign and defence ministry of the European Union (EU). The EEAS is led by the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR/VP), who is al ...

. He specialises in Asia, and held key positions in both his national diplomatic service and that of the European Union. He was appointed the Head of

on 1 September 2019. From 2015 until 2019, Grzegorzewski was Chair of the Council Working Group on Asia - Oceania
COASI
. The group brings together delegates from each EU member state Ministry of Foreign Affairs and meets weekly to prepare the decisions of the

Council of the European Union The Council of the European Union, often referred to in the treaties and other official documents simply as the Council, and informally known as the Council of Ministers, is the third of the seven Institutions of the European Union (EU) as ...

on all matters pertaining to the two continents. From 2013 to mid-2015 he was Director General of Asia-Pacific Department at the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (''Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych'', MSZ) is the Polish government department tasked with maintaining Poland's international relations and coordinating its participation in international and regional supra-natio ...

. He also acted as

ASEM Asem (also spelled Aasem, Assem, Asim ar, عاصم ') is a male given name of Arabic origin, which means "savior, protector, guardian, defender." Asem is also a female given name of Kazakh origin, which means "beauty, beautiful, refined, gracefu ...

Senior Official, and National Coordinator of the Central and Eastern Europe - China cooperation (16+1). Between 2011 and 2013 he was Head of the Policy Unit and Deputy Chief of Staff in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Grzegorzewski was Political Counsellor at th
European Union Delegation to China and Mongolia
between 2008 -2011. This came after he served as COASI Representative at the Permanent Representation of Poland to the European Union (2005 - 2008). He graduated from the Polish Diplomatic Academy and the

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 ...

with a specialisation in Chinese studies and international relations. He also studied at Nanjing Normal University in China and at Hanoi University in Vietnam. Besides

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...

, he speaks

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

, French, and

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...

Publications

* "European Union initiatives Supporting Asia-Pacific Countries in Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic", in: Kolodziejczyk K., ''The EU Towards the Global South During the COVID-19 Pandemic'', Peter Lang, 2023, https://doi.org/10.3726/b20199 * "Strategic Ambiguity in US-Taiwan Relations During the Donald Trump Administration", in
Polish Political Science Yearbook
Volume 51 (2022), https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy202210

References

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