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Regina Jurkowska is a graduate of Hungarian studies at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and postgraduate studies at the Strategic and Defense Department of the National Defense University in Warsaw. She worked at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Hungarian Institute of Culture in Warsaw. Since 1998, she has been an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. In 1998-1999, she was an expert on Central Europe in the Department of Europe. In 1999-2003, she managed political and consular affairs at the Polish Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay. After returning from Uruguay, she joined the Department of Consular Affairs and Polish Diaspora, where she dealt with issues related to the Polish diaspora in Central and Southern Europe, both Americas, Australia and Oceania. In 2010, she became the head of the Program Affairs Department in the Department of Polish Diaspora. In 2012-2013 she was the deputy director of the Department of Polish Diaspora and Poles Abroad. From August 2013 to September 2018 she was the Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Sydney. At that time she was involved, among others, in projects promoting Poland and knowledge about Poland in Australia and in Papua New Guinea, building the prestige of the Australian Polish diaspora, supporting activities of Polish schools and organizations. From 2018 until 2022 she was the head of the Department of Cooperation with the Polish Diaspora and Poles Abroad of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From September 2022 to December 2024, she oversaw the political and economic section at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Bogota, and during the period of August 1 to December 22, 2024, she also served as chargé d'affaires a.i.

For her merits in foreign service and diplomatic activity, she has been awarded: the Silver Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2012), the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2018), the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2022), the Medal of the General Superior of the Society of Christ in Poznań (2017) and honorary citizenship of the Blacktown district in Sydney.

She has participated in several OSCE observation missions including: the parliamentary elections in Belarus (2019), the parliamentary elections in Armenia (2021), the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan (2021) and in the observation mission of local elections in Colombia (2023).

She began her mission as Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago on December 23, 2024.

She has a husband and three daughters.