Witold Sobków (born 17 February 1961 in
Warsaw) is a
Polish scholar, public servant, diplomat, and former deputy foreign minister.
Early life and education
From 1979 he studied at the
University of Warsaw, obtaining an MA in
English Philology in 1984 and an MA in
Italian Philology in 1987.
In 1991, he was a fellow in diplomacy at the
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at
Stanford University
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. He had also studied in Siena, Perugia and Venice.
Between 1998 and 2000, he studied
Islam
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, Security in
Southeast Asia, and basic
Arabic at the
University of London.
In 2008, he completed programs in the field of national and international security at
Harvard University.
Career
From 1984 to 1991, he worked as a
philologist and lecturer at the Faculty of Modern Languages at the
University of Warsaw.
In 1991, after the
Solidarity Revolution, he began to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1993 to 2000 he was based at the
Polish Embassy in London
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, where he worked his way up to the position of minister plenipotentiary and deputy head of mission.
Returning to Poland, he held managerial positions in the ministry, serving in turn as deputy director of the Department of Western Europe, director for Non-European Countries and the United Nations System, and senior adviser to the Minister for European Affairs.
From 2002 to 2006, he was the Polish ambassador to
Ireland.
From October 9, 2006, to December 27, 2006, he served as Under-Secretary of State For European Affairs. In January 2007, he started working as Titular Ambassador at the Department of Foreign Policy Strategy and Planning. From January 1, 2008, to April 9, 2010, he held the position of Political Director /CFSP-EU/
He then served as Poland’s Permanent Representative to the
United Nations in
New York
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and from August 2012 to August 2016 as the Polish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in London. From August 2016 to February 2018 he again served as Political Director at the MFA. Then he was Director for Asia and the Pacific. Since September 2021 he has been Political Director again.
[http://www.london.mfa.gov.pl/en/ ]
Selected publications
* Psycholinguistic approaches to linguistic theories, Warsaw 1988, Ed. UW
* ''La Realizzazione delle tecniche di lettura al livello medio-superiore'', Warsaw 1988, Ed. UW
* ''Współczesny Sudan: polityka islamska'', Warsaw 1998, PISM
References
M.P. z 2010 r. Nr 55, poz. 744M.P. z 2012 r. poz. 731
External links
* (in Polish)
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Living people
1961 births
Politicians from Warsaw
University of Warsaw alumni
Academic staff of the University of Warsaw
Polish philologists
Ambassadors of Poland to Ireland
Ambassadors of Poland to the United Kingdom
Permanent Representatives of Poland to the United Nations
Diplomats from Warsaw