Colonel Kowalik is Director of Military Foreign Affairs Department, Ministry of National Defence of Poland since March 2016. Right before the current post, Colonel Kowalik served as a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee in the the NATO Headquarters in Brussels. Before that, he was the Military Assistant for two Chiefs of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces. Col Kowalik is a graduate of the Field Artillery Officer College in Toruń. He holds a B.S. in Political Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MA and PhD in Pedagogy from the Maria-Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin.