Krzysztof Czapla

Krzysztof Andrzej Czapla (born 1956) is a retired Polish diplomat

Life Krzysztof Czapla graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Following an internship at the Polish Consulate-General in Benghazi, in 1984, he began working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The following year, he was made to leave the Ministry for political reasons. Afterwards, he has been working for Mostostal in Libya as a translator.

After the regime change in Poland, in 1991, Czapla returned to the Ministry. Between 1995 and 1998 he was serving as Consul-General in Benghazi. In 1999, he was successfully negotiating releasing Polish nurses in Libya detained for alleged spreading HIV. (during the 2010 Winter Olympics). In a meantime, at the Ministry headquarter in Warsaw he was working at the Bureau of Control and Audit and at the Consular Department. In 2018, he was responsible for releasing journalist Witold Repetowicz. In 2021, he ended his term and retired.

Besides Polish, he speaks Arabic, English and Russian languages.