Krzysztof Czapla graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Following an internship at the Polish Consulate-General in Benghazi, in 1984, he began working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The following year, he was made to leave the Ministry for political reasons.[2] Afterwards, he has been working for Mostostal in Libya as a translator.[3]
After the regime change in Poland, in 1991, Czapla returned to the Ministry. Between 1995 and 1998 he was serving as Consul-General in Benghazi. In 1999, he was successfully negotiating releasing Polish nurses in Libya detained for alleged spreading HIV.[2] He was twice Consul-General in Vancouver: from 2001 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2013[4] (during the 2010 Winter Olympics). In a meantime, at the Ministry headquarter in Warsaw he was working at the Bureau of Control and Audit and at the Consular Department.[2] Since April 2016 he served as chargé d'affaires to Syria, residing in Beirut.[5] In 2018, he was responsible for releasing journalist Witold Repetowicz.[6] In 2021, he ended his term and retired.
Besides Polish, he speaks Arabic, English and Russian languages.[3]