AMBASSADOR PRZEMYSLAW GRUDZINSKI

Ambassador Grudzinski has been Ambassador of Poland to the United States since September 5, 2000. Prior to his current assignment the Ambassador was Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has been a lifelong educator and political activist. From 1976 to 1996 he was professor of history at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. During the 1980s he became involved in independent publishing activities as a member of the Solidarity Movement, which contributed decisively to the fall of Poland’s communist government and hastened the break-up of the Warsaw Pact. In 1990 Ambassador Grudzinski became an advisor to the Deputy Minister of National Defense. In 1991 he became the Director of the Bureau of Research for the Polish Parliament, before assuming the position of Deputy Minister of National Defense (1992-1993). He has been a visiting fellow at Princeton University (1978-1980), a Fulbright Fellow at Princeton (1988) and a visiting professor at UCLA (1989). He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences in 1977.