Ambassador Artur Dmochowski
Artur Dmochowski is a seasoned Polish diplomat, currently serving as ambassador to Montenegro (since 2018). On 1 January 2022, he assumed the role of the Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office.
He studied at the Jagiellonian University, University of Maryland and the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California.
In the 1980s, Dmochowski, being active in the Polish underground Solidarity movement, was arrested and detained several times.
He started working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993. In the 1990s, he served as field officer in the CSCE Mission in Georgia and the OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2000 to 2006, he was minister-counsellor at the Polish Embassy in Rome. In 2015-16 he worked as spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and later at the Diplomatic Academy.
Beside diplomacy, he worked in the media as an editor and journalist. He created the television channel TVP Historia and was the head of the Polish Press Agency. He also authored several books on history and international relations.
He is married, has three children and his wife, Monika Dmochowska, Ph.D., is a diplomat.
He speaks English, Russian, Italian and Serbo-Croatian.