Biographical Note

New Permanent Representative of POLAND Presents Credentials

 

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service)

Ryszard Sarkowicz, the new Permanent Representative of Poland to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

From 2010 until his latest appointment, Mr. Sarkowicz was the Director of the Legal and Treaty Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw.  He held various other positions, including those of Deputy Director of the Protocol Department and Special Envoy to the Antarctic Treaty.

A Professor of Law at Jagiellonian University in Krakow from 2005 to 2009, Mr. Sarkowicz also served as Poland’s Consul General in Chicago, United States, and Sydney, Australia.  Upon joining the Ministry in 1991 and throughout his diplomatic career, he attended represented Poland in many bilateral and multilateral negotiations.

He has published widely on various legal issues, from professional ethics and legal interpretation to penal and commercial law, and has lectured at many universities in Europe.  Mr. Sarkowicz graduated with a doctorate from Jagiellonian University in 1993, having earned a master’s degree in philosophy in 1979 and a bachelor’s in law in 1977.

Born on 2 November 1952, he is married.

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