Rafał Paweł Perl (born 20 May 1981 in

Szczecin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ...

) is a Polish diplomat, from 2020 to 2024

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Education

Perl graduated from political science at the

University of Szczecin The University of Szczecin () is a public university in Szczecin, western Poland. It is the biggest university in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, West Pomerania, with 33,267 students and a staff of nearly 1,200. Faculties The university consists o ...

. He was studying also at the

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Faculty of Law and at the

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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 Centre d'études européennes de Strasbourg. He has been alumni of the Polish Children's Fund during his high school, as well. Besides Polish, Perl speaks fluently English, French, and communicatively Serbian 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

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. From 2007 to 2008, he was also Polish deputy representative at the board of the European Agency for Reconstruction in

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. He was OSCE election observer in Bosnia-Herzegovina in

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. Between 2011 and 2015 he was serving as First Secretary and Counsellor press chief at the Polish embassy in Washington. 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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, and

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conferences. On 28 January 2020 he was appointed Poland ambassador to Serbia. Due to the

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he took the post after almost six months, on 16 July 2020. On 19 August 2020, he presented his

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to president

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. He ended his mission in July 2024.

Private life

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

Honours

* Silver Cross of Merit (2019)

References

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