Poland in Kenya

Mr. Marcin Kubiak was born on November 4, 1969, in Warsaw. In 1994, he graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Medical University of Warsaw, after which he worked for a year at the State Clinical Hospital No. 1 in Warsaw.

From 1995 to 1997, he attended the National School of Public Administration, graduating as part of the 5th "Rzeczpospolita" promotion program. During his studies at KSAP, Mr. Kubiak received solid professional preparation for work in the Polish Foreign Service, and his long diplomatic career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters and in missions is excellent evidence of this.

As a KSAP student, he completed internships at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Department of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania) and the Canadian Heritage and Treasury Board Secretariat in Ottawa, among other places. He also completed training for foreign service officials organized by the Canadian Centre for Management Development in the United Kingdom.

In 1997, he began working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he progressed through all levels of professional development over the course of more than a decade.

From 1998 to 2003, he worked at the Polish Embassy in Nairobi as Second Secretary, and then First Secretary, responsible for bilateral relations. After returning to Poland in 2003, he assumed the position of First Secretary, and later Counselor for Sub-Saharan Africa, in the Department of Africa and the Middle East. From September 2005 to October 2006, he served as Deputy Director of that department.

In September 2007, he was appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Republic of Zimbabwe, and on 31 December 2008, he began his duties as Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Republic of South Africa and countries of additional accreditation (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe).

After completing his mission in Pretoria, Mr. Marcin Kubiak assumed the position of Director of the Department of Africa and the Middle East at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in January 2013. In February 2013, the Prime Minister appointed him Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Regional Development, and in November 2013 at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development. In both ministries, he was responsible for, among other things, coordinating international cooperation, including maintaining contacts with the European Commission and other European Union institutions, and overseeing the implementation of activities arising from cooperation agreements concluded by both ministries with foreign partners. He also supervised the implementation of projects financed by the EEA Financial Mechanism, the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme, and the Phare SSG.

He also led European Territorial Cooperation programmes in the cross-border dimension (Poland-Slovakia, Lithuania-Poland, South Baltic/Denmark, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Sweden/, Czech Republic-Poland, Poland-Mecklenburg, Poland-Brandenburg, Poland-Saxony), transnational (Baltic Sea Region and Central Europe) and interregional (INTERREG EUROPA), as well as programmes under the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument in 2007–2013 (Poland-Lithuania-Russia, Poland-Belarus-Ukraine) and the European Neighbourhood Instrument 2014-2020 (Poland-Russia, Poland-Belarus-Ukraine). In addition to overall international affairs, Mr. Marcin Kubiak was also responsible for the implementation of the sectoral Technical Assistance Operational Programme 2007–2013 and 2014–2020.

In July 2015, he was appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Malaysia and additional accreditation countries (Brunei, Philippines), where he carried out his mission until June 30, 2017. He then worked in the Department of Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from August 1, 2020 to November 30, 2024, he served as Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Republic of Iraq, from where he returned to his duties in the Department of Africa and the Middle East.

On 19 January 2026, he took over the leadership of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi as Chargé d’affaires a.i.