Witold Spirydowicz

Witold Czesław Spirydowicz (born 5 October 1958, Warsaw) is a Polish civil servant and diplomat, serving as an ambassador to Morocco (2010–2015) and Algeria (2016–2023).

Education and career Witold Spirydowicz has graduated from Law Faculty at the University of Warsaw (1981). He was member of the Independent Students' Union at that time. He has gained also postgraduate diplomas at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, UW (1983), Centre Européen Universitaire de Nancy (1983) and Diplomatic Academy – Polytechnic School of Central London (1990). In 1992, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on criminology. Besides Polish, he speaks English, French, German and Italian languages. Between 2000 and 2004, he was Consul-General in Montreal. For the next two years he has been at the Legal and Treaty Department. From 2006 to 2008, he was director of the department at the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression. In January 2008, he returned to the MFA as a deputy director of the Director General's Office. The same year, in September, he became the director of the MFA Bureau of Control and Audit.

Between 2010 and 2015, he was Polish ambassador to Morocco. In 2016, he was invited by the president Andrzej Duda to the National Development Council. On 7 June 2016, he was nominated an ambassador to Algeria, accredited also to Chad and Niger. Next month, he began his term. He ended his term on 10 March 2023 and soon after took the post of the director of European Policy Department, MFA. He was the director until December 2023.

He is married, with daughter Aldona. Grand Cross of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite (2015)

Works Translations

Hans Joachim Schneider, Zysk z przestępstwa: środki masowego przekazu a zjawiska kryminalne [original title: Massenmedien und Kriminalität], Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1992.