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Mieczysław Bieniek
Public Adviser to the Minister of National Defence, Deputy NATO Strategic Commander 2010-2013, retired general of the Polish Army
General Mieczyslaw Bieniek was born in Krapkowice, Poland, on 19 June 1951. He joined the Polish Army as an Officer Cadet in 1969.
From 1978 to 1981 he attended the Polish Armed Force General Staff Academy. In 1994, upon his promotion to Colonel, he assumed the command of 6th Air Assault Brigade in Cracow.
Then he graduated Royal College of Defence Studies in London , followed by command of 25th Air Cavalry Division. In 1998 he took over Nordic-Polish Brigade Command in B&H. In May 2002, he became Deputy Commander of the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps -Turkey. Then in 2004 he commanded Multinational Division Central-South in Iraq . Afterwards he was appointed as 2nd Polish Corps Commander. In 2007 he was in Afghanistan, where he served as an advisor to Minister of Defense of Afghanistan.
In April 2009 he was appointed as the Polish Military Representantive to the NATO and EU Military Committees in Brussels. In 2010 he assumed the position of Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation .Now he is professor of the Cracow Frycz Modrzewski University.
He is also an author of the many articles and books about International security and strategy as well as cyber and energy security.
He is also a member of Euro-Atlantic Association as well a president of Parachute Section in the “Wawel “ sport club in Cracow.
In addition to English he is also fluent in Russian. General M.Bieniek has been awarded the Commanders Officer's Cross and Bachelor Cross of the Order of Rebirth of Poland, Golden Cross of Merit, US Bronze Medal of Merit and Legion of Honor of the Spanish Kingdom, medals for operations in NATO and UN and many others. His interests include history, literature and sports, especially tennis, snowboarding, windsurfing, kitesurfing and parachuting.
He holds the Jump Master qualification for both military and civilian parachuting, with more than 3500 jumps under his belt.
