Zbigniew Czech (born 30 March 1970 in Białystok) is a Polish civil servant who serves as an permanent representative to the

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since January 2018. Zbigniew Czech has graduated from law at the

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, branch in Bialystok (1994) as well as postgraduate

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at the University of Warsaw (1995) and on international security policy at the

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(2014). He started diplomatic career in 1995 at the Legal and Treaty Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has been working at the Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Poland to

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and WEU in

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(1999–2003) and

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in Brussels as legal adviser and prive officer of the

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(2003–2006). In 2009 he became deputy director of the Legal and Treaty Department (MFA), and in 2012 acting director of the Dearment of the Amecias. Between 2012 and 2014 he was deputy chief of

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. In 2016 he was promoted to the director of the United Nations and Human Rights Department. In January 2018 he was appointed as Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the UN Office in Geneva. He can speak

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, French,

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and

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languages. He is married with four daughters.

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