Andrzej Sadoś

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Andrzej Marek Sadoś (born 17 March 1972 in Warsaw) is a Polish diplomat who served as Poland’s Permanent Representative to the European Union from 2018 to 13 December 2023. He was the predecessor of Piotr Serafin and followed Jarosław Starzyk in that role.

Education and early career
Sadoś studied law at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (1990–1992) and earned a law degree from the University of Warsaw in 1997, after also studying at Hertford College, Oxford in 1996. He completed diplomatic and consular training at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1998 and earned a Wilton Park diploma in 2000.

Career highlights
He began as a press officer for the Solidarność parliamentary group in the Polish Senate in 1995 and joined the diplomatic service in 1997. He served at the UN mission in Geneva (1998–1999, 2001–2006) and at the Polish embassy in Budapest (2000–2001). From May 2006 to April 2007 he was the Foreign Ministry spokesperson, then briefly under-secretary of State at the Prime Minister’s chancellery (Sept–Nov 2007) and at the Foreign Ministry (late 2007). He was deputy head of the embassy in Bern (2008–2009) and permanent representative in Geneva (2009–2012). From 2012 to 2017 he led Eastern Europe programs for the International Catholic Migration Commission in Geneva. In January 2018 he became Poland’s Permanent Representative to the EU, first as chargé d’affaires and then as Permanent Representative.

Personal
Sadoś speaks English, German, French, Hungarian and Russian. He is married with children. He is considered closely aligned with Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party and is known as a friend of European Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi. There was talk he could become director-general of the EU’s DG NEAR. His term as Permanent Representative ended on 13 December 2023.