Marek Szczygieł

Ambassador Marek Szczygiel is the Director of the office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. He has nearly 30 years of professional experience as a diplomat in Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to his current assignment, he was the Head of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia for almost three years. Before that, he held the position of Ambassador for Emerging Security Challenges and Co-ordinator for International Cyber Policy at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2011 until 2015, he served as Ambassador of Poland to Romania. Among other functions, Ambassador Szczygiel worked twice as Deputy Director for Security Policy in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Permanent Representative of Poland to the OSCE in Vienna, and Second Secretary at the Polish Embassy in Stockholm.

His international roles include, among others, the following functions: Chair of The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (2017-2018), Member of the UN High-Level Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) Expert Preparatory Group (2017-2018), Member of the Steering Board of the European Center of Excellence on Countering Hybrid Threats in Helsinki (2017-2020), and Polish Sherpa for the Nuclear Security Summit Process (2009-2011).

Ambassador Szczygiel holds master degrees in international relations and law.