Dr. Krzysztof Strzałka - political scientist, historian and diplomat. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Faculty of History) and the University of "La Sapienza" in Rome (Faculty of Political Sciences). Assistant professor at the Department of International Relations of the Jagiellonian University (since 1999), and then at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University and at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences - Department of European Studies (in 2005-2013).
Since 2000, an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (including First Secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Rome, counselor in the Department of Europe, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Milan in 2008-2012). Currently, minister-counselor in the Department of Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Scholarship holder of the Foundation for Polish Science, the Lanckoroński Foundation from Brzezie, NATO and the Italian Government. Collaborates with Italian and British universities.
Author of monographs and dozens of publications on international relations, European politics, Polish-Italian relations, diplomacy of the Holy See and the history of diplomacy in Polish, Italian and English. Main areas of interest: diplomacy and international policy of the Holy See, European policy and Italian diplomacy, coordination of European policy in EU countries, contemporary diplomacy, history of diplomacy, religions and denominations in international politics.