Senior Research Fellow

As of December 2007 ambassador Jerzy M. Nowak – Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Relations in Warsaw – will lead the International Security Program. Jerzy M. NOWAK - Professional diplomat (retired in 2007). Since 1960 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Posted in Dar-es-Salaam, Buenos Aires and New York (Mission to the UN). Permanent Representative of Poland to the OSCE and IAEA and to the UN Office in Vienna in the rank of Ambassador (1990-1997). Director of the Department of the Security Policy (1997-2000) in the MFA. Negotiated Polish accession to NATO and the revised CFE Treaty. Ambassador of Poland to Spain and the Principality of Andorra (2000-2002).  Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Poland to NATO and WEU (2002-2007) in Brussels. Specialist in the field of multilateral diplomacy and European security and arms control. Representative of Poland to numerous international conferences within UN, CSCE/OSCE, NATO systems. Author of numerous publications on international politics. Has been awarded the title of Ambassador ad personam and high Polish, Spanish, Lithuanian and Ukrainian distinctions. Born 1937. Graduated in the Main College for Foreign Service in Warsaw. Ph.D in the Copernicus University in Toruń in 1967 on constitutional law. He is married to Izabella Janowska-Nowak and has two children. He speaks English, Spanish, Russian and basic French.