Witold Czesław Spirydowicz (born 5 October 1958,

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

) is a Polish civil servant and diplomat, serving as an ambassador to

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

(2010-2015) and

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(since 2016).

Education and career

Witold Spirydowicz has graduated from Law Faculty at 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 ...

(1981). He was member of the

Independent Students' Union Independent Students' Association ( pl, Niezależne Zrzeszenie Studentów, NZS) is a Polish student society, created in October 1980, in the aftermath of the Gdańsk Agreement and the anti-government strike actions (see: History of Solidarity). It ...

at that time. He has gained also postgraduate diplomas at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, UW (1983), Centre Européen Universitaire de Nancy (1983) and Diplomatic Academy – Polytechnic School of Central London (1990). In 1992, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on

criminology Criminology (from Latin , "accusation", and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'' meaning: "word, reason") is the study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and so ...

. Besides

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

, he speaks

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and

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languages. Between 1984 and 1990, he worked for the Institute of Justice of Warsaw, the Institute for Juvenile Research. In September 1990, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Firstly, he was head of section at the Consular Department. Following working on a post at the embassy in

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(1992–1993), in 1993, he became First Secretary at the embassy in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

. In 1997, he returned to the MFA headquarter. Between 2000 and 2004, he was Consul-General in

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. For the next two years he has been at the Legal and Treaty Department. From 2006 to 2008, he was director of the department at the

Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression The Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression ( pl, Urząd do Spraw Kombatantów i Osób Represjonowanych) in the main institution in the Government of Poland to deal with the issues of Polish veterans of struggles for independence and vict ...

. In January 2008, he returned to the MFA as a deputy director of the Director General's Office. The same year, in September, he became the director of the MFA Bureau of Control and Audit. Between 2010 and 2015, he was Poland ambassador to

. In 2016, he was invitited by the

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Andrzej Duda Andrzej Sebastian Duda (; born 16 May 1972) is a Polish lawyer and politician who has served as president of Poland since 6 August 2015. Before becoming president, Andrzej Duda was a member of Polish Lower House (Sejm) from 2011 to 2014 and the ...

to the National Development Council. On 7 June 2016, he was nominated an ambassador to

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. Next month, he began his term. He is married, with daughter Aldona.

Honours

Pro Memoria Medal The Pro Memoria Medal is a Polish civil state decoration awarded by the head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression. Established 25 January 2005, the medal is awarded for outstanding contributions in perpetuating the memory of th ...

(2008) * Officer of the

Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary The Hungarian Order of Merit ( hu, Magyar Érdemrend) is the fourth highest State Order of Hungary. Founded in 1991, the order is a revival of an original order founded in 1946 and abolished in 1949. Its origins, however, can be traced to the O ...

(2014) * Grand Cross of the

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(2015)

Works

Translations *

Hans Joachim Schneider Hans Joachim Schneider (14 November 1928 - 18 June 2015) was a German jurist, criminologist and psychologist. He taught as Professor of Criminology at the University of Münster. Life Hans Joachim Schneider was born in Biedenkopf, a small mark ...

, ''Zysk z przestępstwa: środki masowego przekazu a zjawiska kryminalne'' riginal title: ''Massenmedien aund Kriminalitat'' Warszawa:

Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN (''Polish Scientific Publishers PWN''; until 1991 ''Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe'' - ''National Scientific Publishers PWN'', PWN) is a Polish book publisher, founded in 1951, when it split from the Wydawnictwa Szkolne i P ...

, 1992, .

References

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