Wojciech Zajączkowski

Wojciech Zajączkowski graduated from history at the Catholic University of Lublin in 1987.[2] In 1999 he defended at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences his PhD thesis on ethnic minorities in 19th-century Russia and USSR.[3]

Till the early 1990s he has been working as an editor.[4] From 1991 to 1998 for the Centre for Eastern Studies as an analyst, Senate of Poland as an advisor, Stefan Batory Foundation as a director of the Central-Eastern Europe Forum. In 1998 he joined the Polish diplomatic service, working at the embassy in Moscow. In 2000 he became chargé d’affaires in Ukraine, responsible for Turkmenistan as well. From 2004 to 2007 he headed the Department for Eastern Policy at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 2008 he became the Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister of Poland and Head of the Working Group on Energy Security.[2] He served as the Poland ambassador to Romania (2008–2010) and Russia (2010–2014). Later, he was the Director of the Department of Foreign Policy Strategy at the MFA (2014–2018).[5]

In January 2018 he became the Republic of Poland Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.[4] He presented his credentials to the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping on 23 March 2018.[6] He ended his term on 18 August 2023.[7] Since September 2023, he holds the post of the deputy director of the MFA Asia-Pacific Department.

Wojciech Zajączkowski is married to Izabella Zajączkowska,[8] with three children. Besides his native Polish, he speaks English, French, Romanian, Russian and Ukrainian languages.[9]