Kraków
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Brazil
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(2020–2023).
Life
In 1986, Skiba graduated from history at the
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
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History
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; his Master thesis received the award of the
Polish Historical Society
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History
Founded in 1886 in Lwów by Ksawery Liske as a local society, its scientific journal became the '' Kwartalnik Historyczny'', which was first pu ...
. After the collapse of socialism in Poland, in the early 1990s, he has been engaged for a short time in the
Centre Agreement
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political party. Finally, he chose career of the civil servant and entered the National School of Public Administration (KSAP) which he finished in 1993. In 2016, Skiba received Ph.D., defending at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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(1993–1996, 2003–2005). Between 1996 and 1997, he was posted as First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland to the
United Nations
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in
New York
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. From 1997 to 1999, he was director at the
Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland
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, later he was director general of the Central Statistical Office. Since 2005, he has been director general at the Ministry of Interior and Administration and Chancellery of the Prime Minister. He was member of the KSAP council (2000–2007), and Council for Foreigners. In November 2007 he was appointed member of the board of the
National Bank of Poland
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for a six-year term. On 18 November 2015, he was nominated Secretary of State of the Ministry of Interior and Administration. On 20 October 2017 he became acting president of the Polish Security Printing Works. On 8 February 2018, he took the same post at the
Polish Armaments Group
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, within two weeks becoming regular president of the company. Between 2019 and 2020, he was director of the War Studies Academy Center for Security Studies in Warsaw. In January 2020 Skiba was appointed Poland ambassador to Brazil, presenting his
letter of credence
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in March 2020. He ended his term on 28 February 2023.
In 2012, Skiba published a book "Itinerarium. Moja podróż w głąb Europy" (''Itinerarium. My journey to the heart of Europe''). Besides Polish, he speaks English,
French
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, and has passive knowledge of
Spanish
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and
Russian
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