Robert Rostek


Robert Artur Rostek is a Polish civil servant and career diplomat serving as a Poland ambassador to Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.

Education

Robert Rostek attended high school in Warsaw. He graduated from Arab studies at the Jagiellonian University in 1995. He studied at the University of Tripoli, Libya and Damascus University, Syria as well.
He speaks Arabic, English, and Russian languages.

Diplomatic career

Robert Rostek joined the Polish diplomatic service in 1996. He has worked, among others, at the Polish Consulate General in Benghazi, the embassies in Cairo, Kuwait, and the US Interests Section of the Polish Embassy in Baghdad. In 2003, he was appointed Special Representative from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Polish Special Mission in Iraq and Special Assistant to ambassador Marek Belka, Chief of the Protocol of the Council for International Coordination of the Coalition Provisional Authorities in Iraq. In 2006, he was appointed civil servant. Following his work as chargé d'affaires in Doha, Qatar, where since 2006 he was establishing an embassy, Robert Rostek became two years later an ambassador to Qatar. He ended his term in December 2013 and returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw as the Head of the Maghreb and Mashreq Unit, Department of Africa and the Middle East. In June 2016, he was nominated Poland ambassador to United Arab Emirates. He took the post in August 2016. He ended his term on 30 September 2020. On 10 May 2021, he became deputy director of the Department of Africa and the Middle East. On 30 November 2022, Rostek was nominated ambassador to Saudi Arabia, accredited also to Oman, and Yemen. He began his term in February 2023.
In 2014, Robert Rostek became a Honorary Member of the Polish Olympic Committee International Relations Commission.
2026 - Ambassador at Large
Initiator of air connections to Poland by: Qatar Airways Doha - Warsaw, FlyDubai Dubai - Cracow, PLL LOT Warsaw - Riyadh and Flynas Riyadh - Cracow.

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