Ambassador Rafał Siemianowski

Rafał Siemianowski Ambassador
Republic of Poland to the Kingdom of Belgium

Rafał Siemianowski is a civil servant and a diplomat. He has served as the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Kingdom of Belgium since November 2021.

Before this appointment, Mr. Siemianowski worked for many years as a civil servant at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister (2006-2012; 2015-2020). As a deputy director of the Bureau of the Prime Minister, he closely worked with successive Heads of the Chancellery and was responsible for the correspondence, documents and decisions of the Prime Minister and the Head of the Chancellery. In 2020 he was appointed Undersecretary of State and Deputy Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. In this capacity, he supervised a broad range of issues including legislation, control and international affairs analysis.

From 2012-2015 he served as a counsellor at the Polish Embassy in London. His portfolio consisted of two main fields: Polish-British science and academic cooperation as well as British policy towards Africa, the Far East, South America as well as Australia and Oceania.

Ambassador Siemianowski graduated from international relations at the University of Warsaw (2004) and the National School of Public Administration (2006). During his studies he gained practical experience as an intern at the Polish Embassy in Bern (2002) and the prefecture of the Manche Department in France (2005). Before the Polish Presidency in the EU he did an internship at DG Relex, the European Commission (2009/2010). In 2014, as a scholarship holder of the Jan Karski Educational Foundation, he participated in the Georgetown Leadership Seminar (the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University). In 2019 he developed his managerial skills at IESE Business School (ARGO Top Public Executive 2)

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Our Staff

Ambassador:  Rafał Siemianowski

Political-Economic section

Head of the political-economic section: Maria Dąbrowska, I secretary

Consular Department

Head of department: Dagmara Jasińska, Consul General, First Counselor

Administrative and Finance Department

Head of the department: Grzegorz Praczyk, secretary

Secretariat

address: Rue Stevin 139, 1000 Brussels