Poland in the UK

Mirosław Sycz (born in 1959) is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Gdansk and holds a PhD in Humanities from the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He also holds an MBA degree from the Business School of the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2009 he was appointed as a civil servant. He is also a member of the foreign service – currently at the rank of counsellor-minister. Between 1999 and 2001, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was Poland's representative in the Polish-American-Ukrainian Cooperation Initiative (PAUCI).

He permanently linked his career with the MFA in 2006, starting work in the newly established Department of Development Cooperation. In 2009, he became deputy director of the department. Among other things, he supervised Polish development assistance provided to Afghanistan during the period when the Polish military contingent was there. During that time, he was a member of the Inter-Ministerial Team for Afghanistan. From 2016 to 2018, he was the head of the Passport and Citizenship Unit at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Manchester. He also worked in the Department of Economic Cooperation, the Office of the Political Director and in the Office of the Head of the Foreign Service, where he was responsible, among other things, for the promotion and recruitment of Polish diplomats to the European External Action Service. On August 12th, 2024, he was appointed to the position of Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Belfast.

He is married and has two sons.