Grażyna Bernatowicz

Grażyna Maria Bernatowicz (born 12 March 1946 in Warsaw) is a Polish diplomat and political scientist. She was the Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 2000 to 2002, and again from 2007 to 2013. She has been the Polish ambassador to Spain and Andorra (2002–2007), and to the Czech Republic (2013–2017).

Life and career In 1968, Bernatowicz graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw. In 1975 she obtained a doctoral degree in law there, with a doctoral dissertation entitled Wewnętrznych i zewnętrznych uwarunkowań polityki zagranicznej Hiszpanii (Internal and external determinants of Spanish foreign policy). In 1992, she was awarded a Habilitation in humanities with a specialization in political science. and retired in 2017.

Selected Awards and Honours Portuguese Order of Merit, 2008 Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, 2009 Maltese Order of Merit, 2010 Commandeur of the Order of Saint-Charles, Monaco, 2012 Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, 2012 Officer of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland, 2013