Artur Dmochowski
Artur Antoni Dmochowski (born 13 June 1959 in Kraków) is a Polish journalist, historian, and diplomat; ambassador to Montenegro (since 2018). Life. Dmochowski had started, in 1978, his studies at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków. In 1986, he graduated from history at the Jagiellonian University. He has been educated also at the University of Maryland (postgraduate studies in foreign policy) and, thanks to Fulbright grant, in 1995, he gained MA from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California. In 1980, he was spokesman of the Founding Committee of the AGH Independent Students’ Association . Between 1984 and 1985, he was presiding the Student Self-Government and was member of the Senate of the Jagiellonian University. During the whole 1980s he was active in the underground publishing movement; being founder and editor-in-chief of the "Od Nowa" and "Czas Solidarności" magazines"." He has been arrested and detained several times. After the collapse of communism in 1989, he continued his work as an editor and journalist for, among others, "Nowy Dziennik" in New York, TVP3 Kraków, and "Gazeta Polska". In 1993, he started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was representing Poland  at the CSCE Peace Mission in Georgia (1994) and the OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996), among others. From 2000 to 2006 he was serving as a minister-counsellor at the Embassy in Rome. Since 2006, he was journalist again, founding and directing the TVP Historia channel. Since 2011, Dmochowski has been editor of Gazeta Polska and Gazeta Polska Codziennie daily. In November 2015 he was back at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on a post of a spokesman. From 9 May 2016 to 9 October 2017 he was chairman of the Polish Press Agency. On 29 August 2018 , Dmochowski was nominated ambassador to Montenegro, presenting his letter of credence on 6 September 2018. He is married to Monika Dmochowska, with two children.