Polish Ambassador Marek Magierowski Discusses Relations with United States, Israel and Ukraine

Polish Ambassador Marek Magierowski Discusses Relations with United States, Israel and Ukraine

Thursday 12:00pm PDT

Join Marek Magierowski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the United States of America and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, for a conversation with AJU President Jeffrey Herbst. Prior to assuming this post, Ambassador Magierowski served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to the State of Israel from 2018-2021 – a complex and contentious time between the two countries largely due to concerns over the Holocaust restitution law that Warsaw adopted.  

Ambassador Magierowski, who previously worked as a reporter, editor, and columnist overseeing and writing about economic issues and foreign affairs, also offers his unique perspective on the current conflict in neighboring Ukraine as Poland has absorbed more than half of Ukraine’s refugees since the onset of the war.

Marek Magierowski was born in 1971. He graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan with a degree in Hispanic Studies. He worked as a reporter, editor and columnist for over 20 years. He was, among others, the deputy head of the economic desk at “Gazeta Wyborcza,” the head of the foreign affairs desk and the business section at the “Newsweek Polska” weekly, and the deputy editor-in-chief of “Forum.” From 2006-2011, he was the deputy editor-in-chief of “Rzeczpospolita.” He regularly wrote columns on foreign policy for the “Uważam Rze” and “Do Rzeczy” weeklies. In October 2015, he left journalism to work for the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland as an expert on public diplomacy, and was subsequently appointed Head of the Press Office of the Chancellery of the President. From June 2017 to May 2018, he served as Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Marek Magierowski served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to the State of Israel from June 25, 2018, to November of 2021.

Dr. Jeffrey Herbst is the fourth president of American Jewish University.  At AJU, he has focused on promoting innovation in the university’s academic programs.  He has also supported the growth of the Maas Center for Jewish Journeys, expansion of the B’Yachad/Together digital platform, and capital improvements on the Brandeis-Bardin Campus. Prior to joining AJU, Dr. Herbst was president and CEO of the Newseum and the Newseum Institute in Washington, DC. From 2010 to 2015, he was president of Colgate University, where among other accomplishments he is credited with helping the university complete its nearly half billion-dollar fundraising campaign, leading the development and initial implementation of a university-wide strategic plan, and increasing the diversity and academic caliber of its educational programming. Dr. Herbst earned his bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from Princeton University, and a master’s degree and doctorate in political science from Yale University. He is the author of the award-winning “States and Power in Africa” and, with several co-authors, the just-published “Making Africa Work.”