Henryka Joanna Mościcka-Dendys (born 3 July 1976,

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) is a Polish diplomat who served an ambassador of Poland to

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(2015–2020).

Life

Henryka Mościcka-Dendys has graduated from the law and classics at the

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. Since 2007 she holds a PhD in

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from the

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. Her thesis was on Common Foreign and Security Policy of the

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. In 2002 she began her diplomatic career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2003 she got seconded to the office of the

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Commissioner for Democratic Development in

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. Between 2007 and 2011 she was working at the where she was covering EU policies, especially enlargement and institutional issues (2007–2011). Later, in 2011, she was the deputy director of the European Policy Department responsible for institutional affairs and Northern Europe and, since 2012, the director of that department. On 16 April 2013 she was appointed Undersecretary of State at the MFA. Among her scope of responsibility were European policy, human rights and parliamentary affairs. On 8 November 2015 she started her service as an ambassador to Denmark, presenting her credentials to the

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five days later. She ended her term on 15 September 2020. Week later, she became director of the MFA Bureau of Investments. In January 2024, she was nominated Undersecretary of State at the MFA for the second time. She was member of the Council of the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation between 2011 and 2016. She speaks

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, and Danish. She is married.

Honours

* Gold Cross of Merit (Poland, 2013) *

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, 2nd Class (Estonia, 2014) * Grand Cross of the

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(2014) * Commander of the

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(Denmark, 2020) *

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(Poland, 2021) *Knight's Cross of the

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(Poland, 2022)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moscicka-Dendys, Henryka 1976 births Ambassadors of Poland to Denmark Commanders of the Order of the Dannebrog Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Living people People from Kędzierzyn-Koźle Polish jurists Polish women ambassadors Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland) Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 2nd Class University of Silesia in Katowice alumni