Polish journalist and diplomat
Maciej Szymanowski (born January 17, 1966, in Poznań) is a Polish journalist, specialist in Hungarian studies, diplomat, and associate professor.[1] He has served as Director of the Wacław Felczak Polish–Hungarian Cooperation Institute since 2018.
Życiorys
Maciej Szymanowski studied in Budapest in the years 1987–1988, a scholarship he received based on Wacław Felczak’s recommendation. In the late 1980s he was also active in the Polish–Hungarian Solidarity. In 1991, he graduated in Hungarian studies from the University of Warsaw.[2] He is also a Doctor of Philosophy in History, a degree he received in 2001 at the Jagiellonian University for the dissertation Wartości narodowe w komunistycznej propagandzie Czechosłowacji, Polski i Węgier w prasie lat 1949–1953 (The National Values in the Communist Propaganda of Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary in the 1949–1953 press; supervisor: Andrzej Chwalba).[3][failed verification]
From 1992 to 1999, Szymanowski was an editor of the Czech weekly Respekt[4]. In 2000, he began working for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an expert in Central European matters. He also served as Director of the Polish Institute in Budapest from 2001 to 2006[5] and Director of the Polish Institute in Prague from 2006 to 2010. Afterwards, he worked in the Office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, assuming responsibility for the Ministry's historical policy in February 2013.[2]
In 2013, Szymanowski began writing for the Polish weekly Do Rzeczy[6]. He also became lecturer at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest.[7] His other collaborations include Radio Wnet[8] and the Czech magazine Kontexty[9]. On August 1, 2018, he was appointed Director of the Wacław Felczak Polish–Hungarian Cooperation Institute.[1][10]
His wife Lucie Szymanowska comes from the Czech Republic. She is a translator of Hungarian, feature writer, and MTVA's Warsaw-based correspondent.[11]
