Piotr Serafin

Piotr Arkadiusz Serafin (born 12 January 1974 in Sulęcin) is a Polish official. Since 13 December 2023 he serves as the Acting Permanent Representative of Poland to the European Union.

Life
Serafin graduated from economics at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, and from law at the University of Warsaw. He was a postgraduate student of European integration at the University of Sussex.

In 1998, he began his professional career at the Office of the Committee for European Integration (UKIE). In 2004, he became director of the Analysis and Strategy Department. Between 16 January 2008 and 31 December 2009, he was Undersecretary of State at UKIE and National Aid Coordinator for the Phare and Transition Facility programmes. Following the merging of UKIE and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in 2010, he was appointed Undersecretary of State at MFA. In February 2010, he was appointed the deputy head of Cabinet of the EU Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget Janusz Lewandowski. From 22 May 2012 to 24 September 2014, he served as the Secretary of State at MFA. On 1 December 2014, he took the position of the Head of the Cabinet of the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk. After that, between 2020 and 2023, he was the Director of Transport, Telecommunications and Energy at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union. On 13 December 2023, he was nominated the acting Permanent Representative of Poland to the European Union.

Married, with two daughters.

Honours

 * 2005 – Silver Cross of Merit, Poland
 * 2014 – Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Poland
 * 2020 – Commander's Cross of the National Order of Merit, Romania