Zdzisław Aleksander Raczyński (born 18 October 1959 in Werpol)[1] is a Polish diplomat, journalist and novelist, currently serving as and officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

[1] He was educated at University of Warsaw, under the Faculty of Political Science, and graduated in Arab studies at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

[4] From October 2016 and 2021 he was also the leader of the Solidarity Polish trade union unit at the MFA.

[5] As a journalist and novelist, Raczynski published several articles on Russia policy issues and the Arab world.

His 2021 novel Poppy Seeds on the Eyelids (ISBN 978-83-956355-4-0) is about the Holocaust of a Jewish community in a small town in eastern Poland.