Henryk Szlajfer
Visiting Professor
Skalny Center for Polish and
Central European Studies
Department of Americas
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Al. J. Ch Szucha 23
00-580 Warszawa
Poland
EDUCATION
Warsaw University, Institute of Economics, MA (1973)
Warsaw University, Institute of Sociology, PhD (1977)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2004 – September 2006 (after Sept 1, on leave)
Director, Department of Americas, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ambassador
March 2000 – July 2004
Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the OSCE, UN Office, International Atomic Energy Agency and Other International Organizations, Vienna
June 1996 – February 2000
Director, Department of Strategy and Policy Planning, MFA
Since 1998 also Secretary of the General Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ambassador ad personam
October 1994 – March 1996
Professor, G.C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies ( Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany)
August 1993 – September 1994
Director, Department of Studies and Planning, MFA
December 1991 – July 1993
Senior Deputy Director and Acting Director, Polish Institute of International Affairs
November 1990 – November 1991
Senior Research Associate and Program Director, Institute for East-West Security Studies, New York
November 1990 –
Senior Researcher, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
August 1980 – October 1990
Senior Researcher, Center for Non-European Countries, Polish Academy of Sciences
December 1979 – July 1980
Unemployed for political reasons
December 1977 – November 1979
Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Dar es Salaam ( Tanzania)
July 1976 – November 1977
Unemployed for political reasons
October 1975 – June 1976
Lecturer, Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra ( Portugal)
February 1974 – September 1977
Proof-reader
April 1973 – January 1974
Unemployed for political reasons
October 1965 – March 1968 and April 1971 – March 1973
University student
March 1969 – March 1971
Worker, clerk, unemployed
March 1968 – February 1969
Political prisoner
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Visiting Polish Scholar, Oxford University, Nuffield College, November 1989
Editor-in-chief of The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, 1991 –
1993 – October 1994
Member of the Experts Commission. Joint Committee of the Presidents of Poland and Ukraine.
1997
Member of the Prime Minister’s Council on European Integration
1997
Member of the core team negotiating Poland’s membership in NATO
June 2000
Chief Coordinator of the “Community of Democracies” Ministerial Conference, Warsaw
November 2004
Member of the core team negotiating in Kiev terms of the first meeting of the Ukrainian “round table”
DISTINCTIONS
Joint Meritorious Unit Award, 1996, Department of Defense ( USA)
LANGUAGES
Polish – mother tongue
English – very good
Russian – very good
German – satisfactory
Spanish – poor
Portuguese – poor
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