Rafał Paweł Perl (born 20 May 1981 in

Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...

) is a Polish diplomat, since 2020 an ambassador to Serbia.

Education

Perl graduated from political science at the University of Szczecin. He was studying also at the University of Liège Faculty of Law and at the University of Lausanne Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. He finished with best results the Diplomatic Academy of the

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, being also trained at the National School of Public Administration, and the

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. He has been alumni of the

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during his high school, as well. Besides Polish, Perl speaks fluently English,

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, and communicatively

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* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

languages.

Career

In 2005, he began his career in diplomacy. Between 2006 and 2011, he was working at the departments for relations with European countries. He was responsible for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,

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. From 2007 to 2008, he was also Polish deputy representative at the board of the European Agency for Reconstruction in Thessaloniki. He was OSCE election observer in Bosnia-Herzegovina in Montenegro. Between 2011 and 2015 he was serving as

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and Counsellor press chief at the

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. In 2015, he became head of unit at the Minister of Foreign Affairs Secretariat, being promoted to deputy director, and then director of this 50-person department. He was engaged in organizing the

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, Tirana, and Skopje conferences. On 28 January 2020 he was appointed Poland ambassador to Serbia. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic he took the post after almost six months, on 16 July 2020. On 19 August 2020, he presented his letter of credence to president Aleksandar Vučić.

Private life

Rafał Perl is married to Anna Perl who is also a diplomat, with a daughter.

Honours

* Silver Cross of Merit (2019)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Perl, Rafal 1981 births Ambassadors of Poland to Serbia Living people People from Szczecin Recipients of the Silver Cross of Merit (Poland) University of Szczecin alumni