12 Facts About Jacek Czaputowicz

Jacek Czaputowicz obtained his habilitation at the University of Warsaw in 2008.

Jacek Czaputowicz is an academic lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw.

In 1978 Jacek Czaputowicz collaborated with the Workers' Defence Committee and the Students' Solidarity Committee in Warsaw.

Jacek Czaputowicz was imprisoned on 13 December 1981 and released in November 1982; then he became involved in the activity of the underground NZS.

Jacek Czaputowicz 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.

Jacek Czaputowicz advocated the withdrawal of the Soviet army and the introduction of democracy in Poland and the unification of Eastern and Western Europe.

Jacek Czaputowicz joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990.

Jacek Czaputowicz was deputy director, then director of the Consular and Emigration Department.

Jacek Czaputowicz was the director of the Foreign Policy Strategy and Planning Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 2008.

Jacek Czaputowicz was the deputy chairman of the Public Service Council, the Administrative Board of the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht and the Public Service Council of the Prime Minister.

Jacek Czaputowicz joined the board of the Polish Institute of International Affairs.

Jacek Czaputowicz resigned on 20 August 2020 ahead of a cabinet reshuffle.