Diplomat and culture manager, film and music producer, publisher. Director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw from 2008 to 2016.
Holds an MA in philosophy from the University of Warsaw, where he also studied history. He began his career in public service in 1992 as President of the Polish Information Agency. Started his diplomatic service in 1995 as Cultural Consul at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles. Founding director of the Polish Cultural Institute in New York in 2000, then director of the Polish Cultural Institute in London from 2005. Founding Member of the Lincoln Center Global Exchange in New York. Published extensively in periodicals including Rzeczpospolita, Poland’s second-largest daily newspaper, and the magazines Tygodnik Powszechny and Brief. In 2013 he published a novel Ludzka rzecz (To Err Is Human).
Source: materials of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute
