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Agnieszka Frydrychowicz-Tekieli (born 1974 in Słupsk) is a Polish diplomat, since September 2016 serving as an ambassador to Colombia.
Life
Agnieszka Frydrychowicz-Tekieli was born in 1974 in Słupsk. In 1986 she has earned her Master degree from the University of Warsaw, Institute of International Relations. She was also educated at American Studies Center there. She is an author of articles on Argentina for Polish Scientific Publishers PWN encyclopedia.
In 1999 she began her career at the Polish diplomatic service. Following her post at the Department for European Union, between 2004 and 2009 she was First Secretary at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the European Union in Brussels. In 2008 she became Minister's envoy for the Barcelona Process. In 2009 she was the head of the Maghreb and Mashriq section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 2009 and 2014, she was in position of the deputy head of mission in Mexico, also as chargé d'affaires (2012–2013). For next two years she was the deputy director of the MFA Bureau of Infrastracture. On 2 September 2016 she was nominated Poland ambassador to Colombia. On 15 November 2016, she presented her credentials to the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos. She is accredited to Saint Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda.
She speaks English and Spanish languages. She is married, with a son.