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Janusz Stańczyk
Ph.D.
Janusz Stańczyk Ph.D.
16th Poland Ambassador to the United Nations
	In office; 2000–2004
Preceded by	Eugeniusz Wyzner
Succeeded by	Andrzej Towpik
Poland Ambassador to the Netherlands
	In office; 2007–2012
Preceded by	Jan Michałowski
Succeeded by	Jan Borkowski
6th Poland Ambassador to the Council of Europe
	In office; 2015–2020
Preceded by	Urszula Gacek
Succeeded by	Jerzy Baurski
Personal details
Born	22 January 1955 (age 69); Tarnów, Poland
Children	two
Alma mater	Jagiellonian University
Profession	Diplomat

Janusz Józef Stańczyk (born 22 January 1955 in Tarnów, Poland) is a Polish diplomat.

Education

Janusz Stańczyk graduated from the Faculty of Law at Jagiellonian University in 1977. He attended Saint Louis University School of Law from 1990 to 1991. In 1985 at the Polish Academy of Science, he defended his doctoral thesis on international law.^[1]

Career

Between 1978 and 1980, Stańczyk worked at Jagiellonian University, and afterward at the Academy of Sciences (between 1983 and 1992).^[2] In 1992, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he became the director of the legal and treaty department. In 1995, Stańczyk became the director general of the Ministry. Between 1997 and 1999, he was under secretary of state there. Stańczyk served as an ambassador to the United Nations from 2000 to –2004. After this he was the director of the Department of the United Nations and Human Rights. Between 4 November 2005 and 6 September 2006 he once again served as the under secretary of state.^[3] Stańczyk was the ambassador to the Netherlands and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from 2007 to 2012.^[4] Between 2015 and 2020, he was the permanent representative to the Council of Europe.^[5] Since 1 September 2020 he served as the director of the MFA Department of Americas.^[6] On 31 January 2022 Stańczyk retired.