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Poland in Egypt

Ambassador

Michał Murkociński

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Michał Murkociński, a career diplomat with over 30 years of experience, is heading the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Cairo since March 2025.

He graduated in Arabic studies from the Jagiellonian University. In 1991, he began his diplomatic and consular training and subsequently worked at the Department of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1996 to 2001, he served as First Secretary at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Damascus. Between 2001 and 2006, he worked at the Department of Africa and the Middle East, and from 2004 to 2006 at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Beirut, where he served as chargé d’affaires in 2006.

Upon returning to Poland, he headed the Department of Africa and the Middle East at the MFA from 2006 to 2008. From 2008 to 2012, he was the Polish Ambassador to Syria. Between 2012 and 2014, he served as Deputy Director of the Department of Africa and the Middle East, and from 2014 to 2018, he was the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Egypt.

Since 2018, he has been the Head of the Persian Gulf Division at the Department of Africa and the Middle East at the MFA. He has been engaged with Sudan since 2019, initially as a Visiting Ambassador and, from 2022, as the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Republic of Sudan (with temporary residence in Cairo since September 2023).

He is a co-author of the Polish-Arabic Phraseological Dictionary of the Syrian Dialect.

He is fluent in English and Arabic.

Married, father of two sons.

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