Filip Tadeusz Grzegorzewski is a Polish and European diplomat, since 2019 he serves as Head of the European Economic and Trade Office in Taiwan.
Filip Grzegorzewski | |
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| Head of the European Economic and Trade Office in Taiwan | |
| Assumed office 1 September 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Madeleine Majorenko |
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| Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
Career edit
Filip Grzegorzewski, representing the European Union in Taiwan, is a senior diplomat in the European External Action Service.[1] He specialises in Asia, and held key positions in both his national diplomatic service and that of the European Union. He was appointed the Head of European Economic and Trade Office on 1 September 2019.
From 2015 until 2019, Grzegorzewski was Chair of the Council Working Group on Asia - Oceania (COASI). The group brings together delegates from each EU member state Ministry of Foreign Affairs and meets weekly to prepare the decisions of the Council of the European Union on all matters pertaining to the two continents.
From 2013 to mid-2015 he was Director General of Asia-Pacific Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. He also acted as ASEM Senior Official, and National Coordinator of the Central and Eastern Europe - China cooperation (16+1). Between 2011 and 2013 he was Head of the Policy Unit and Deputy Chief of Staff in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Grzegorzewski was Political Counsellor at the European Union Delegation to China and Mongolia between 2008 -2011. This came after he served as COASI Representative at the Permanent Representation of Poland to the European Union (2005 - 2008).
He graduated from the Polish Diplomatic Academy and the University of Warsaw with a specialisation in Chinese studies and international relations. He also studied at Nanjing Normal University in China and at Hanoi University in Vietnam.
Publications edit
- "European Union initiatives Supporting Asia-Pacific Countries in Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic", in: Kolodziejczyk K., The EU Towards the Global South During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Peter Lang, 2023, https://doi.org/10.3726/b20199
- "Strategic Ambiguity in US-Taiwan Relations During the Donald Trump Administration", in: Polish Political Science Yearbook, Volume 51 (2022), https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy202210
References edit
- ^ a b "Filip GRZEGORZEWSKI. CV" (PDF). eeas.europa.eu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-03-20. Retrieved 2023-04-13.