Bartosz Grodecki is set to take up the post of head of the National Security Bureau (BBN), as revealed by the Niezalezna.pl portal. While he is publicly known as an experienced diplomat and state official, a closer look at his professional career reveals interesting and little-known facts. Since February 2026, Grodecki has been an advisor at an arms industry company that has been lobbying for a bill vetoed by President Karol Nawrocki. Earlier, during his time in government, he oversaw the preparation of a document on migration policy that included, among other things, rent subsidies for foreigners and aligned with the EU’s “solidarity” policy.
Bartosz Grodecki is a graduate of political science at the University of Warsaw and has been involved in diplomacy since 2006. He served, among other places, in Los Angeles, Malmö, and Stockholm. However, what exactly did his path to such a sensitive state security position as head of the BBN look like?
Arms industry direction and the SAFE Act
Particularly noteworthy is the business thread of the new BBN head’s career in the months immediately preceding his assumption of the state position. Since February 2026, Bartosz Grodecki has served as a board advisor at the Gdynia-based company RADMOR, a well-known Polish manufacturer of communications equipment. Since 2011, the company has been part of the WB Group defence consortium.
This in itself might not be particularly unusual were it not for the broader political context. The WB Group is one of the main potential beneficiaries of the SAFE programme, a major EU defence initiative that has generated enormous controversy at the highest levels of power. The bill on SAFE has been surrounded by numerous controversies, and President Karol Nawrocki ultimately decided to veto it. Representatives of the WB Group openly pressured the head of state, appealing in a special letter for him to sign the legislation.
Career “under the wing” of Andrzej Papierz
The development of Bartosz Grodecki’s civil service career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also has an important behind-the-scenes dimension. According to Niezależna.pl’s information, his diplomatic path gained the greatest momentum during the period when he was “under the wing” of Andrzej Papierz, an influential diplomat, former Deputy Foreign Minister, and Director General of the Foreign Service.
In 2018, when then-Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz appointed Andrzej Papierz to the inter-ministerial Migration Team (replacing the recalled Bartosz Cichocki), a deputy arrangement was also established. In Papierz’s absence, his duties were to be taken over by Bartosz Grodecki, who at the time served as Director of the Consular Department of the MFA.
Architect of the controversial migration policy
On 3 March 2020, Bartosz Grodecki was appointed Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of the Interior and Administration (MSWiA), where he coordinated key departments: the Department of International Affairs and Migration, the Department of Civil Affairs, the Department of Citizenship and Repatriation, as well as the Departments of ICT and Permits and Concessions.
Under his supervision, in 2020-2021, the Inter-ministerial Team on Migration prepared the widely discussed document “Poland’s Migration Policy – Directions of Action 2021-2022”. The then Law and Justice government ultimately rejected this project due to its highly controversial provisions.
The document prepared by the team led by Grodecki promoted a vision closely aligned with the Brussels migration course. It included the requirement to take actions such as “active participation in negotiations” on the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, which continues to provoke massive protests. The document openly postulated “Poland’s engagement in expressing solidarity with EU Member States (…) under increased migratory pressure.”
The strategy contained in the ultimately rejected document assumed, among other things, the training of teaching staff for “work in a multicultural school environment” and the implementation of a nationwide “model of Foreigner Integration Centres.” There was also a call for “supporting integration measures directed at the host society,” which in practice meant placing the burden of adaptation to increased migration waves on Poles.
Grodecki’s team also proposed “increasing the supply of housing” for immigrants and advocated the introduction of “social rental agencies” that could operate with the possibility of “rent subsidies.” The entire document was permeated by thinking that treated immigration as a remedy for the country’s weak demographic condition, postulating the “filling of labour market shortages” with economic migrants and the introduction of maximum facilitations in the legalisation of their stay and employment.