Ambassador Nowak serves as Vice President of the Euro-Atlantic Association. Prior to this position he held the position of the President since March 2008. He has been working as Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Relations in Warsaw, lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Warsaw and at the N. Copernicus University in Torun as well as Representative of the Minister for the Security Policy Review in 2009. He started his impressive diplomatic career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1960. Since then he was posted in Dar-es-Salaam, Buenos Aires and New York (Mission to the UN). In 1990-1997 he worked as Permanent Representative of Poland to the OSCE and IAEA and to the UN Office in Vienna in the rank of ambassador and after that as Director of the Department of the Security Policy (1997-2000) in the MFA. With great deal he contributed to the Polish accession to NATO and the Revised CFE Treaty. In 2000-2002 he was assigned as Ambassador to Spain and the Principality of Andorra, later, as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Poland to NATO and WEU (2002-2007) in Brussels and in 2005-2007 he worked as Dean of the North-Atlantic Council.