Jakub Kumoch is an orientalist, political scientist, and an expert in the European Union’s external relations. Since 2015 he has been a member of the security, defence and foreign policy section of the National Development Council that operates under the President of Poland. Jakub Kumoch graduated from the Institute of International Relations and the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the University of Warsaw, and in 2015 he obtained his PhD degree in social sciences at the Jagiellonian University. He started his professional career as an analyst at the Centre for Eastern Studies and the Polish Institute of International Affairs. He also cooperated with the Sobieski Institute. Ambassador Kumoch was the Polish Press Agency’s correspondent in Russia, and he also worked as the deputy head of the foreign affairs section and as the head of the internal affairs section of the Dziennik daily newspaper. He is one of the European Commission’s experts tasked with analysing election processes, and has taken part in over a dozen EU and OSCE election observation missions. In October 2016 he was appointed Polish ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, where he contributed to revealing the activities of the Ładoś Group and Polish diplomats’ efforts to save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust. Ambassador Jakub Kumoch is fluent in Turkish, English, French, Croatian, Spanish, Russian, German, and Italian. He also speaks some Ukrainian and Arabic.

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