Adam Burakowski graduated from
University of Warsaw Faculty of History (2001). In 2007 he defended his
PhD thesis on
Nicolae Ceaușescu (supervised by
Andrzej Paczkowski) and, in 2015,
habilitation on
politics of Romania. He is the professor of the Institute of Political Studies of the
Polish Academy of Sciences. Graduate of the Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhji High School. From 2006 to 2017 he worked for the national broadcaster
Polskie Radio, holding various positions related to the international affairs. He was a Polish representative to the
European Broadcasting Union. Simultaneously, he was involved in the
Euranet. At that time he has been cooperating with Centre for European Studies of
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca,
Masaryk University in
Brno. In December 2017 he became the
Republic of Poland Ambassador to
India. He was accredited to six other countries:
Afghanistan,
Bangladesh,
Bhutan,
Maldives,
Nepal,
Sri Lanka. He ended his term in
New Delhi on 31 March 2023. On 13 April 2023, he took the post of the Ambassador to
South Africa, additionally accredited to
Botswana,
Namibia,
Mozambique,
Zimbabwe,
Zambia,
Lesotho and
Eswatini. He ended his term in December 2024. He speaks
English,
Hindi,
Romanian and
Russian. He is married and has four children. == Works ==