Poland in Ethiopia

Ambassador Przemysław (Przemek) Bobak is a career member of the foreign service and a civil servant. He started working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2001, after having passed a competitive entry exam. His diplomatic training included temporary delegation to the Polish Embassy in London and the Polish Permanent Mission to the OECD in Paris. Then, as an attaché, he started working at the MFA headquarters in the Department of Africa and the Middle East.

In 2004 he left for the Polish Embassy in Nairobi, where he covered political and economic cooperation and development projects in Kenya, Burundi, Madagascar, Rwanda and Uganda. He was also responsible for contacts with United Nations agencies headquartered in Nairobi - the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat).

From 2006 till 2009 he worked in the UN-Habitat office in Warsaw covering countries of the Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. His responsibilities included promotional activities and project management.

In 2009 he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work initially at the Eastern Department and then at the Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Office of the Political Director as deputy director and European Correspondent.

Years of 2013-2017 he spent at the Political and Economic Section of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tel Aviv, dealing mainly with the issues of Polish-Israeli scientific and technical cooperation.

In February 2018 he took the position of director of the Department of Africa and the Middle East.

He speaks English and French.

Married (his wife is also a career diplomat), has two children.

He took the position of ambassador in Addis Ababa on September 6, 2020.