Mentor 2022/2023
Meeting place: online / Warszawa
Number of mentees in this edition: 1-2
Language: Polish, English, French
Tomasz Orłowski is a titular ambassador with a doctoral degree in History, Professor at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University (AFMKU) and a visiting professor at the Paris School of International Affairs, Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris (Sciences Po). He studied archaeology and historical monument studies at the University of Lodz and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, as well as French and comparative literature and medieval civilisation at the University of Poitiers. He was a student of the Institut d'Hautes Études de la Défense Nationale in Paris.
He worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from August 1990 to September 2021. Tomasz Orłowski was the Deputy Head of Departments of Europe (1994-1996), United Nations System and Global Issues (2004). He was an Ambassador, Head of the Diplomatic Protocol from 2005 to 2007 and the First secretary, then Counsellor at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Paris from 1990 to 1994. From 1996 to 2001 he was the Counsellor-Minister, then Minister Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Rome. He was a secretary-general of the Polish National Commission for UNESCO and a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO (2001-2004).
From 2007 to 2014, Tomasz Orłowski was an Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to France and to the Principality of Monaco, and in 2014 he held the function of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 2015 to 2017 he was an Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Italy and the Republic of San Marino.
Dr Tomasz Orłowski lectures on international relations and diplomacy at the University of Warsaw, Collège d'Europe, the Polish Naval Academy and the War Studies University. He is the Head of MBA Diplomacy, Paweł Adamowicz Civic Study Centre at Vistula University and a corresponding member of the French Académie des Sciences morales et politiques. He is an author of numerous publications, protocol manuals and diplomatic practice.