Åódź
Åódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Åódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Åódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...
,
Poland
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south Wales
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in Great Britain (1995). He graduated
Phi Beta Kappa
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and ''summa cum laude'' from
Washington and Lee University
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(1999) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. He later studied political science at
Johns Hopkins University
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(Master of Arts, 2005). From 2005 to 2008 he was a PhD student at
Johns Hopkins University
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and the
University of Mannheim
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.
Career
For ten years Golubiewski lived in Washington, D.C., working in business consulting and cooperating with NGOs, think tanks, and universities, including the
Center for Family and Human Rights
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. He was an intern at US Senator
Richard Lugar
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's office.
In 2008, he joined the
European Commission
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in
Brussels
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, and in 2011 in the newly established European External Action Service. Golubiewski dealt with the regional policy of eastern Africa and the countries of the
Indian Ocean
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, participating in trade negotiations with the ACP economic bloc. From 2014 to 2016, he was the deputy ambassador of the
European Union
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to the EU Delegation in Beirut, and its head of the political and media section.
Between 2017 and 2019, when he was succeeded by
Adrian Kubicki
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European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development
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,
Janusz Wojciechowski
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.
Golubiewski is a member of the advisory committee at the
Catholic University of America
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. He was an expert at the Sobieski Institute and the National Center for Strategic Studies.