| Witold Spirydowicz | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | Ph.D. |
| Ambassador From: | Poland |
| Country: | Morocco |
| Term Start: | 22 September 2010 |
| Term End: | 31 July 2015 |
| Predecessor: | Joanna Wronecka |
| Successor: | Marek Aleksander Ziółkowski |
| Ambassador From2: | Poland |
| Country2: | Algeria |
| Term Start2: | 6 July 2016 |
| Term End2: | 10 March 2023 |
| Predecessor2: | Michał Radlicki |
| Birth Date: | 5 October 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Warsaw, Poland |
| Nationality: | Polish |
| Children: | Aldona |
| Alma Mater: | University of Warsaw |
| Profession: | Diplomat |
Witold Czesław Spirydowicz (born 5 October 1958, Warsaw) is a Polish civil servant and diplomat, serving as an ambassador to Morocco (2010–2015) and Algeria (2016–2023).
Witold Spirydowicz has graduated from Law Faculty at the University of Warsaw (1981). He was member of the Independent Students' Union at that time. He has gained also postgraduate diplomas at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, UW (1983), Centre Européen Universitaire de Nancy (1983) and Diplomatic Academy – Polytechnic School of Central London (1990).[1] In 1992, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on criminology.[2] Besides Polish, he speaks English, French, German and Italian languages.
Between 1984 and 1990, he worked for the Institute of Justice of Warsaw, the Institute for Juvenile Research. In September 1990, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Firstly, he was head of section at the Consular Department. Following working on a post at the embassy in Vienna (1992–1993), in 1993, he became First Secretary at the embassy in Bonn. In 1997, he returned to the MFA headquarter.[3] Between 2000 and 2004, he was Consul-General in Montreal. For the next two years he has been at the Legal and Treaty Department. From 2006 to 2008, he was director of the department at the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression. In January 2008, he returned to the MFA as a deputy director of the Director General's Office. The same year, in September, he became the director of the MFA Bureau of Control and Audit.[4]
Between 2010[5] and 2015, he was Polish ambassador to Morocco.[6] [7] In 2016, he was invited by the president Andrzej Duda to the National Development Council.[8] On 7 June 2016, he was nominated an ambassador to Algeria, accredited also to Chad and Niger. Next month, he began his term.[9] [10] He ended his term on 10 March 2023 and soon after took the post of the director of European Policy Department, MFA.[11] He was the director until December 2023.
He is married, with daughter Aldona.
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