Jacek Czaputowicz

In January 2019, Foreign Minister Czaputowicz told the Rzeczpospolita newspaper that: "If Ireland turned to the EU about changing the agreement with Britain with regard to the provisions on the backstop so that it would only apply temporarily — let’s say five years — the matter would be resolved."

On 9 January 2018, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki.

·       Teorie integracji europejskiej [Theories of European Integration], 2018.

He was the deputy chairman of the Public Service Council (2007–2009), the Administrative Board of the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht (2006–2010) and the Public Service Council of the Prime Minister (2007–2009). In the years 2008–2012 he was the director of the National School of Public Administration. In 2014 he became a member of the program council of the Law and Justice party. From January 2017, he was the director of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also joined the board of the Polish Institute of International Affairs. On 15 September 2017, Prime Minister Beata Szydło appointed him as the Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

·       International Relations in Poland. 25 Years After the Transition to Democracy (co-author), 2017.

·       Bezpieczeństwo międzynarodowe. Współczesne koncepcje [International security. Conpemporary concepts], 2012.

·       Teorie stosunków międzynarodowych: krytyka i systematyzacja [Theories od International Relations: critique and systematization], 2007.

·       System czy nieład? Bezpieczeństwo europejskie u progu XXI wieku [System or disorder? European security at the treshold of the XXI century], 1998.

He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990. He was deputy director, then director of the Consular and Emigration Department (1990–1992). In the years 1993–1998 he was a senior adviser to the Minister in the Department of Studies and Planning. In 1998 he became the deputy director of the Accession Negotiations Department at the Office of the Committee for European Integration. In the same year he became the deputy head of the Civil Service and served until 2006. He was the director of the Foreign Policy Strategy and Planning Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 2008.

In December 1988, he became a member of the Solidarity Citizens' Committee. He advocated the withdrawal of the Soviet army and the introduction of democracy in Poland and the unification of Eastern and Western Europe.

In April 1985 he became one of the founders of the Freedom and Peace Movement (WiP). For his activity at the WiP, he was imprisoned in February 1986. He was released in September 1986 under amnesty. He coordinated the WiP's foreign relations and maintained contacts with the democratic opposition in the GDR, Czechoslovakia and Hungary and was one of the initiators and signatories of the Helsinki Memorandum.

In 1978 Czaputowicz collaborated with the Workers' Defense Committee KOR and the Students' Solidarity Committee in Warsaw. in the years 1978-1980 he ran a library of underground publications. He was arrested several times for independent activity. In September 1980, he was one of the founders of the Independent Students' Association (NZS). He was imprisoned on 13 December 1981 and released in November 1982; then he became involved in the activity of the underground NZS.

In the years 1980-1983 Czaputowicz studied geography at the University of Warsaw, in 1986 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Main School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (now Warsaw School of Economics). In the years 1992-1993 he was a member of the Foreign Service Programme at the University of Oxford. In 1997, he received a doctorate in political science at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Science. He obtained his habilitation at the University of Warsaw in 2008. In 2016 he was appointed by the Polish President as a professor of social sciences. He became the Head of the Section of European Research Methodology at the Institute of European Studies of the University of Warsaw.

·       The Importance of the Helsinki Process for the Opposition in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Peace Movements in the 1980s (co-author), 2018.

Jacek Krzysztof Czaputowicz (born 30 May 1956 in Warsaw, Poland) - an activist of the democratic opposition in communist Poland. In 1990 he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A professor of social sciences. He was an Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2017 until 2018. Since 9 January 2018 he has been a Minister of Foreign Affairs.