Andrzej Fałkowski

In 2018, "for winning battles in the field of diplomacy" he received the annual BUZDYGAN 2017 award from the Polska Zbrojna monthly.

In May 2015, Fałkowski was one of the Polish people sanctioned by Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian War.

From 2011 to mid-2013, he served as Defense, Military, Naval and Air Attaché at the Embassy of the Poland in the United States in Washington DC. From 2013 to 2014 he was the deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, between 2014 and2018 he served as the Polish Military Representative at the Military Committees of NATO and the European Union in Brussels. He has repeatedly represented the Ministry of National Defense, as well as a moderator and speaker at international conferences and seminars.

In 2007, Fałkowski was elected by the NATO Military Committee as Deputy Director of the NATO International Military Staff for Logistics and Resources in Brussels, which he assumed in September 2008.

Between 2006 and 2008, he was the director of the Budget Department of the Ministry of National Defense.

He was invited to give lectures at foreign universities, incl. NATO School in Oberammergau (2000, 2010–2011, 2017), the Academy of General Staff of Ukraine in Kyiv in 2002, the Baltic Defense Academy in Tartu, Estonia (2009–2011, 2016-2018), as a representative of NATO HQ - Federation General Staff Academy In Moscow (2010), Université Libre de Bruxelles (2010), National Defense University in Washington (2012), American University in Washington (2013), NATO Defense College in Rome (2015), as well as at national universities, incl. .: often at the National Defense University and the University of Warsaw (2005) and the National School of Public Administration (2005). He was a lecturer and promoter of master's and diploma theses at the National Defense University and the Warsaw University. Maria Skłodowskiej-Curie. In 2016, he gave an inaugural lecture at the beginning of the academic year at the Naval Academy in Gdynia.

In 1998 he took the position of chief specialist, as an adviser at the Polish Representation to NATO and the Western European Union (WEU) in Brussels, and in 2003 he was appointed deputy chief of the P-5 Strategic Planning General Board at the General Staff of the Polish Army in Warsaw.

Between 1996 and 1998, he was the deputy director of the Economic Department. In 1997, at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz, he defended the dissertation entitled "Poland's defense budget (problems, methods)" and obtained a doctoral degree in economics.

He also completed postgraduate studies in Monterey, United States in 1994, and several foreign courses, including in the Netherlands Defense Academy, the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany, as well as in Canada and the United States. He knows English.

After the officer promotion, he was assigned to the 3rd Security Regiment of the Naval Command in Gdynia, where he served until 1984. Then he was transferred to the Finance Department of the Ministry of National Defense in Warsaw.

He graduated from the Economic Secondary School in Rypin in 1977. He is a graduate of the Academy of Officers of Quartermaster Services in Poznań in 1982, and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Gdańsk in 1985.

Andrzej Fałkowski (born in 1959), is a Polish retired army officer and currently a diplomat, who was last ranked as the general.