Wojciech Gerwel is a career diplomat. From August 2018, he served as the ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Prior to that he was, among other things, a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and first counsellor for strategic analyses at the Department of Foreign Policy Strategy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also head of the Non-European Markets Unit at the MFA’s Department of Economic Cooperation and worked in the area of non-European markets, with a special focus on Africa and the Middle East. From 2007 to 2014, he served as the economic counsellor at the Polish Embassy in Hanoi. 

Before he began his diplomatic career, Wojciech Gerwel worked as an analyst at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C., and cooperated with other Washington think-tanks, including with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (the US-EU-Poland Action Commission project under the supervision of Zbigniew Brzeziński). His professional experience includes consulting services for an association of seven First Nations tribes in Canada (Treaty 8 Tribal Organization – Treaty and Aboriginal Rights Research).

Wojciech Gerwel completed two-year MA studies at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, and BA studies in economy and political science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He also studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and at Lester B. Pearson United World College in Victoria, Canada.

 

Łukasz Jasina
MFA Spokesperson