Andrzej Sadoś

Andrzej Sadoś has been studying law at the Eötvös Loránd University (1990–1992). He has graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw (1992–1997). In 1998 he finished the diplomatic and consular training at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). He has been also educated at the Hertford College, Oxford (1996) and Wilton Park (2000).[1]

His professional experience includes being a press officer of the Parliamentary Club of “NSZZ Solidarność” at the Chancellery of the Senate of Poland (1995–1997), and, since 1997, as a member of Polish diplomatic service at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations in Geneva where he was responsible for the relations with WHO, IOM, CERN, UNHCR, OHCHR, UNEP and the World Economic Forum (1998–1999, 2001–2006); at the embassy in Budapest (2000–2001). Between May 2006 and April 2007 he was the spokesman of the MFA. Afterwards, until September 2007 he was Under-Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland[2] and, from September to November 2007, at the MFA.[3] From September 2008 to July 2009 he served as the deputy head of the Embassy in Bern, and next, from 2009 until July 2012, in the permanent representative in Geneva. Among his scope of responsibilities, among others, were: coordination of political and legal affairs in the fields of human rights, humanitarian affairs, migration and refugee policies, economic cooperation, public health affairs, climate change.[4]

Later on, between July 2012 and the end of 2017 he was Head of programs in Eastern Europe of the International Catholic Migration Commission, Geneva. He was in charge of labour migration, public health, economy and employment, implemented in cooperation with partners from governmental, private and academic sectors.[4]

Since January 2018 Andrzej Sadoś serves the Permanent Representative of Poland to the European Union. Firstly, as chargé d'affaires, and later as a Permanent Representative.[5]

He can speak English, German, French, Hungarian and Russian languages. He is married, with children.[4]