Minister Marek Prawda coordinates European issues. Represents the Minister of Foreign Affairs at meetings of the European Affairs Committee. Additionally, he is responsible for the European Union’s enlargement and neighborhood policy, as well as for the employment of Polish citizens in the European External Action Service, international institutions and organizations.
He was the director of the Representation of the European Commission in Poland. Previously, he served as the permanent representative of the Republic of Poland to the European Union, and before that he was the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Sweden and Germany. He was an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: deputy director and director of the Department of Western Europe and director of the secretariat of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is a lecturer at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, at the Civic Center. Paweł Adamowicz in Gdańsk and at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). In the 1980s, he was active in the Solidarity Citizens’ Committee and worked at the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he defended his doctoral thesis in the field of sociology of work. He was also secretary general of the Main Board of the Polish-German Society. Since 2021, he has been an expert of Team Europe Direct at the Representation of the European Commission in Poland and a member of the Conference of Ambassadors of the Republic of Poland, as well as the Program Council of Network PL, an association of Poles employed in international institutions. He was an advisor to Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviychuk and a business advisor. Since 2023, he has been vice-chairman of the Euro-Atlantic Association. He was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of Germany, the Order of Merit of the Land of Brandenburg, the Cordi Poloniae Medal awarded by the Convention of Polish Organizations in Germany and the Medal of the European Movement in Germany. Winner of the Dialogue Award granted by the Board of Polish-German and German-Polish Societies and the European Institute of Culture and Media “Polonicus” Award granted by the European Association of Polish Diaspora in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.
