Wiesław Tarka

Wiesław Karol Tarka (born 30 June 1964 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish diplomat, Poland Ambassador to Croatia (2008–2012) and Sweden (2014–2018).

Life Wiesław Tarka finished High School No. 6, Bydgoszcz. He has graduated from German studies at the University of Warsaw (M.A., 1988). He was studying also in Germany

During 1989 Polish legislative election campaign he was Solidarity Citizens' Committee volunteer, next two years cooperating in creating the foreign policy of the committee.

He started his career as an assistant and Swedish language teacher between 1988–1991 and 1996–1997. He was working at the embassy in Stockholm between 1991 and 1996. He was back there between 1998 and 2002. From 2003 to 2005 he was head of the promotion and international cooperation unit at the Masovian Voivodeship Marshal's Office, and, afterwards, Culture Bureau deputy director at the City of Warsaw office. In 2005, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. presenting his letter of credence to king Carl XVI Gustav on 5 February 2015. He returned to Poland in June 2018 and took the post of the deputy director of the European Policy Department. Since June 2022 he serves as the deputy Ambassador to France.

Currently, he is the Coordinator of the 2019 Western Balkans Summit in Poznań.

He speaks English, German, Swedish, Croatian, French and Russian languages. Order of Duke Branimir (Croatia, 2012)