Jakub Sławek
Ph.D.
7th Poland Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates
Assumed office
2022
Succeeded byRobert Rostek
Personal details
Born1976 (age 47–48)
NationalityPolish
SpouseBeata Sławek
Children3
Parent(s)Ewa, Tadeusz
Alma materJagiellonian University
ProfessionDiplomat, Arabist

Jakub Kacper Sławek (born 1976[1]) is a Polish diplomat, since 2020 chargé d'affaires and since 2022 ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the United Arab Emirates.

Life

Jakub Sławek graduated from Arabic studies at the Institute of Oriental Philology of the Jagiellonian University (2002).[2] He also studied at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Paris and Damascus.[3] In 2004 he became a sworn translator of the Arabic language.[4] In 2008, at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw, he obtained a PhD in literary studies on the basis of the dissertation Tribalism and Text in the Culture of Yemen (doctoral advisor – Marek Dziekan).[5]

In 2002 he started working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He stayed at posts in Sanaa, Yemen (until 2006), Algiers, Algeria (from September 2007),[2] and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the deputy head of the mission and the Consul of the Republic of Poland (from June 2012).[6][2] In December 2017, he became deputy ambassador to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. On 1 October 2020, he took the position of chargé d'affaires ad interim there.[7] On 16 November 2021, he was appointed ambassador to the .[8] He took the post on 11 March 2022.[2]

Personal life

Son of Ewa and Tadeusz Sławek. Married to Beata Sławek, father of three children.

Apart from Polish and Arabic, he speaks English, French, Italian and Russian.[3]

Works

  • Jakub Sławek: Jemen – świat wartości plemiennych. Kurowice: Wydawnictwo Ibidem, 2011. ISBN 978-83-62331-03-1.
  • Jakub Sławek: Arabskie i polskie słownictwo dyplomatyczne i polityczne = Muʿǧam būlandī-ʿarabī li ǎl-muṣṭalaḥāt ad-diblūmāsiyya wa as-siyāsiyya. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2016. ISBN 978-83-8012-578-0.

Translations

  • Janusz Spyra: In the shadow of the Skoczów synagogue. Bielsko-Biała: Jewish Religious Community, 1998, ISBN 83-911161-0-7.

References

  1. ↑ "Jakub Sławek | Wszystkie książki, wywiady, artykuły". Lubimyczytać.pl (in Polish). 2021-12-21. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2022-03-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Ambassador". Poland in the UAE - Gov.pl website. 2022-03-24. Archived from the original on 24 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  3. 1 2 "Absolwenci, Uniwersytet Jagielloński". Exporter.pl (in Polish). 2017-07-08. Archived from the original on 8 July 2017. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  4. ↑ "Lista tłumaczy przysięgłych / Tłumacze przysięgli / Rejestry i ewidencje / Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej". arch-bip.ms.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  5. ↑ "dr Jakub Sławek". nauka-polska.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  6. ↑ "Personel". rijad.msz.gov.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2015-08-30. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  7. ↑ "Zapis przebiegu posiedzenia Komisji Spraw Zagranicznych /nr 62/". sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). 2021-09-28. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  8. ↑ "Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 16 listopada 2021 r. nr 110.28.2021 w sprawie mianowania Ambasadora Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej" (PDF). isap.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). 2021-11-16. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
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