page_title: Jacek Czaputowicz
section_title: Professional career
hierarchical_section_title: Jacek Czaputowicz / Professional career
caption_attribution_description: Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz participates in a UN Security Council Session on Middle East Peace and Security, in New York City, New York, August 20, 2019. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]
context_page_description: Jacek Krzysztof Czaputowicz is a Polish politician and academic who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 9 January 2018 to 20 August 2020.
context_section_description: He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990. He was deputy director, then director of the Consular and Emigration Department (1990–1992). In the years 1993–1998 he was a senior adviser to the Minister in the Department of Studies and Planning. In 1998 he became the deputy director of the Accession Negotiations Department at the Office of the Committee for European Integration. In the same year he became the deputy head of the Civil Service and served until 2006. He was the director of the Foreign Policy Strategy and Planning Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 2008.
  He was the deputy chairman of the Public Service Council (2007–2009), the Administrative Board of the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht (2006–2010) and the Public Service Council of the Prime Minister (2007–2009). In the years 2008–2012 he was the director of the National School of Public Administration. In 2014 he became a member of the program council of the Law and Justice party. From January 2017, he was the director of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also joined the board of the Polish Institute of International Affairs. On 15 September 2017, Prime Minister Beata Szydło appointed him as the Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  On 9 January 2018, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki. He resigned on 20 August 2020 ahead of a cabinet reshuffle. Zbigniew Rau took over the charge of the foreign Minister from him on 26 August.
caption: Czaputowicz chairs a United Nations Security Council meeting in 2019
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