Arkady Józef Rzegocki (born August 22, 1971 in
Tarnobrzeg
Tarnobrzeg is a city in south-eastern Poland (historic Lesser Poland), on the east bank of the river Vistula, with 49,419 inhabitants, as of 31 December 2009. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (Polish: ''Województwo podkarpackie'') sinc ...
) is a Polish political scientist, an assistant professor of the
Jagiellonian University in
Krakow. Between 2016 and 2021 he served as the
Republic of Poland Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Head of The Foreign Service in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2021–2023). Since 1 September 2023 he serves as the Ambassador to
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
.
Career
Rzegocki graduated from the
Jagiellonian University. Between 1996 and 2010 he worked at the Department of History of Political and Legal Doctrines of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Since 2010 he has been an assistant professor at the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University.
He was an associate professor of the
Polish University Abroad in London (2011–2016).
In 2011, he founded Jagiellonian University Polish Research Centre in London.
He was a councillor for the City of Kraków from 2014 to 2016, elected as a conservative
Law and Justice candidate.
Private life
Arkady Rzegocki is married to English philologist and theatre historian Jolanta Rzegocka, who is fluent in English, Lithuanian and Russian and knows the basics of French and Hungarian.
They have three daughters.
See also
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List of Ambassadors of Poland to the United Kingdom
The Republic of Poland ambassador to the United Kingdom (known formally as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to the Court of St James's) is the official representative of the Government of the Republic o ...
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Poland–United Kingdom relations
British–Polish relations are the bilateral relations between the countries of United Kingdom and Poland. Exchanges between the two countries date back to medieval times, when Britain and Poland, then one of Europe's largest countries, were linke ...
References
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Ambassadors of Poland to Ireland
Ambassadors of Poland to the United Kingdom
1971 births
Living people
Jagiellonian University alumni
Academic staff of Jagiellonian University
People from Tarnobrzeg
Polish political scientists