1. Warsaw, October 24, 2015
Marek Chojnacki, Ph.D.
ul. Broniewskiego 6 m. 102
01-785 Warszawa, POLAND
cell phone: (+48) 503-495-802
e-mail: mchojnacki@go2.pl
Curriculum Vitae
 2002 –2015 translation activities and achievements; translating scientific and
literary books and papers from English, German and French into
Polish and from Polish into English, among others for the
Jagiellonian University Press (Cracow), WAM (Cracow),
slowo/obraz terytoria (Gdansk), and The Council for Research in
Values and Philosophy (Catholic University of America,
Washington, D.C.);
 February 2009 –
September 2010
director, Polish Cultural Institute in Paris; First Counsellor of the
Embassy of the Republic of Poland in France. Area of competence
– public and cultural diplomacy;
 March 2008 –
May 2008
deputy director, Centre for International Cooperation, Warsaw
University of Technology. Area of competence – organization of
international exchange of the University;
 September 2005 –
September 2007
academic teaching: lecturer at the Institute of Polish Literature,
Podlasie Academy (lectures in the history of philosophy) and –
parallelly – at the Metropolitan Seminary in Warsaw (lectures in
contemporary Catholic theology);
 November 2007 recognition of my doctoral degree from Switzerland by the
Council of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of the
Warsaw University, granting me a title of doctor of human
sciences in the domain of philosophy in the Republic of Poland;
 September 2000 –
August 2004
Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Lille, France;
Counsellor of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in France.
Particular achievements: extensive activities in the domain of
public and cultural diplomacy before Poland’s accession to the
European Union;
CHOJNACKI, MAREK, PhD, U. Fribourg, Switzerland, 1994: dir. Polish Inst.Paris I; Counsellor Polish Embassy in
France Ministry Fgn. Affairs, Warsaw, 2009–10; Consul gen. Lille, France, Ministry Fgn. Affairs, Warsaw, 2000–04;
dir., press ctr. Polish Info. Agy., Warsaw, 1998–2000; Vis. scholarHarvard Div. Sch., Cambridge, Mass.,1995–97.
Contbr. scientific papers.
Source: Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2013, 30th Edition

2.  March - June 2000 director, Press Office of the International Conference of Ministers
of Foreign Affairs “Towards a Community of Democracies” in
Warsaw, created by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the
Polish Information Agency, with a significant engagement of the
U.S. Department of State;
 January - July 1999 director, Press Office of John Paul II’s visit to Poland in 1999,
constituted by the Polish Information Agency, acting on behalf of
the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland and the Sala
Stampa (the Vatican Information Service). My tasks then included
managing a complex structure of 18 field press offices, engaging
about 500 employes and volunteers;
 July - December 1998
and August-
September 1999
deputy director, Press Centre of the Polish Information Agency in
Warsaw. Cooperation and maintaining relationships with various
local, governmental and non-governmental organizations
(economic, political, cultural etc.), as well as with companies
promoting themselves through the Press Center;
 1995-1997 visiting scholar, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass., USA; work on my own research project. 1995-
1996 – research grant of the Swiss Scientific Fund
(Nationalfonds). Academic contacts and visits, a.o. at the Boston
University, Boston, MA and UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 1996-1997
– academic stay in the Polish-American academic centre in
Orchard Lake, MI (St. Mary’s College, now Madonna University),
lectures in the history of theology in English, guest lectures,
academic meetings and participation in scientific conferences in
various American academic centers (such as College of the Holy
Cross, Worcester, MA, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA,
Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C.);
 1993-1995 secretary, Polish Catholic Mission, Marly near Fribourg,
Switzerland;
 1990-1994 doctoral studies in fundamental theology and philosophy at the
University of Fribourg, Switzerland, accomplished with the
defense of my doctoral thesis (summa cum laude) in December
1994;
 1984-1989 studies of theology and philosophy at the Academy of Catholic
Theology in Warsaw (now Cardinal Wyszynski University) and
parallelly at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Warsaw
University, accomplished with the diploma of Master of Theology
in 1989;

3.  areas of interest:
scientific publications
publications in various international periodicals, a.o. in Human
Studies (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston-Dordrecht),
Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie (Fribourg),
Periphery, Oekumenische Beihefte (Fribourg), Innsbrucker
theologische Studien, Culture and Society, (Kultura i
społeczeństwo, Comittee on Sociology, Polish Academy of
Sciences), Principia (Jagiellonian University, Cracow), Philosophy
Review (Przegląd Filozoficzny, Committee on Philosophy, Polish
Academy of Sciences), Więź (Warsaw);
 translation activities
and achievements
translation from English into Polish, on professor Williams’s
request, of an album on the history of Poland in the 16. century by
George Hunston Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard
University (unpublished); translation from Polish into English of
the book „Values in the Polish Cultural Tradition” ed. by L.
Dyczewski, published by the CRVP (Catholic University of
America, Washington DC); translation and publication of a series
of scientific and literary books in the years 2002-2011 (see entry
“Chojnacki, Marek (1963-)” in catalogues of the Polish National
Library).
Foreign languages proficiency:
- fluency in speech and writing: English, German, French
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- passively: Italian, Spanish, Russian