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Martin Oxley, Head, UKTI Poland

Martin Oxley

Director of UKTI Warsaw

Part of UK in Poland

25th July 2013 Warsaw, Poland

A GREAT Mini Day out in Kraków

An early start and a quick walk around Kraków’s main square. Beautiful morning and a GREAT day ahead. The Ambassador’s in town for a series of meetings focused on the GREAT British Polish relationship.

The main message coming out of a number of pretty high level meetings was threefold:

  • Kraków is a GREAT tourist destination for GREAT Britain; the UK is a GREAT destination for Polish tourists – not only there are now over 60 000 Polish owned businesses in the UK
  • Kraków is home to some GREAT British investors which span the entire Emerging Europe region –  BP, Capita, HSBC,  Rolls Royce, Serco, Shell to name 6.
  • We want more of the UK in Krakow – there are GREAT opportunities in energy, rail, life sciences, security, retail and services – an ‘easy to get to destination’- well worth a look and some GREAT bilateral opportunities

What comes over loud and clear in Kraków  is there is GREAT scope for more. Kraków has a GREAT business park and is building a new technology park. The City offers GREAT IT skills, a high number of graduates and is on Poland’s GREAT South economic corridor.

Ambassador Robin Barnett with Marshall Marek Sowa
Ambassador Robin Barnett with Marshall Marek Sowa

Didn’t they all just love the Mini!  The Mayor, the Marshall and the Voivode. GREAT mini; GREAT City and GREAT opportunity.

About Martin Oxley

Martin Oxley joins the Embassy team in Warsaw, building on a 15 year business career in Central Europe. An expert in the healthcare and life sciences sector, he has led a…

Martin Oxley joins the Embassy team in Warsaw, building on a 15
year business career in Central Europe. An expert in the healthcare and
life sciences sector, he has led a number of the leading blue chip and
regional pharmaceutical companies in Poland and the broader Central and
Eastern European region.
Most recently he was CEO of the British Polish Chamber of Commerce.
Under his leadership the Chamber grew to be one of the most prominent
international business networking organisations in Poland receiving a
number of awards  for excellence and partnership development.
Martin retains a keen interest in digital media, communications,
cultural relations and enterprise development. He is very enthusiastic
about his new role at the Embassy and honoured to have the opportunity
to play a leading role in championing the development of British
business in Poland.
He is married to Małgorzata and has two children Jaś and Nati.

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