Irena Maria Lichnerowicz-Augustyn (born 16 May 1974, Brodnica) is a Polish

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who served as an ambassador of Poland to Cyprus between 5 September 2018 and 18 August 2023.

Life

Irena Lichnerowicz-Augustyn has graduated from the

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at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She also studied at the

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(Lettres et Sciences Humaines) and did her MA at University of Bath from European Studies-Euromasters programme. In 1999 she started her career at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, initially as an expert in the Foreign Affairs Office and then senior expert in the Presidential Protocol Division. In 2005 she began her diplomatic career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since December 2014 until 2018 she was the director of the Diplomatic Protocol. She was responsible for organizing and coordinating such events as NATO Summit in Warsaw in 2016 and World Youth Days in 2016. On 5 September she became ambassador to Cyprus. She presented her credentials on 14 November 2018. She ended her term on 18 August 2023, and returned to the position of the director of the Diplomatic Protocol. Beside Polish, she can speak English,

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, Italian, and to some extent, German and Russian languages. She is married, with one daughter.

Honours

* Silver Cross of Merit (Poland, 2012) * Officer's Cross of the Order of Leopold II (Belgium, 2004) * Cross of Merit with Ribbon of the

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(Germany, 2005) * Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland (Finland, 2015) * Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium 2015) * Commander of the

Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( it, Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) is the senior Italian order of merit. It was established in 1951 by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi. The highest-ranking h ...

(Italy, 2014) * Commander's Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit (Norway, 2016) * Grand Commander of the

Order of Makarios III The Order of Makarios III ( el, Τάγμα Μακάριου Γ') is the highest order of merit awarded by Cyprus. Established in 1991, the order is named after the first President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III. Grades The Order of Makarios ...

(Cyprus, 2021)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lichnerowicz-Augustyn, Irena 1974 births Alumni of the University of Bath Ambassadors of Poland to Cyprus Commanders of the Order of the Lion of Finland Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Living people Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń alumni Officers of the Order of Leopold II People from Brodnica County Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Recipients of the Silver Cross of Merit (Poland) Polish women ambassadors