Monika Aleksandra Zuchniak-Pazdan (born 1 July 1974, in Nowy Sącz)[1] is a Polish diplomat; an ambassador to Albania (2021-2024).

She graduated from marketing (1999) and international relations and diplomacy (2001) at Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu – National-Louis University.

[2] In 2000, she began her career at the public administration as an intern at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland.

Following her work for the chancellery of the Sejm, in 2003 she joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland as a deputy director of the Promotion Department.

[4] Later, she was heading the consular sections at the embassies in: Ottawa,[5] Tallinn,[6] Beirut, Riga,[7] Vilnius.