Poland

Grażyna Stronikowska has been prosecuting organised crime since 1995, initially conducting investigations and then supervising the most complex investigations at the Department for Organised Crime and Corruption. Recently, she held the position of a prosecutor at the National Public Prosecutor’s Office and was a member of the National Council of Prosecutors at the Polish Prosecutor General’s Office. 

She has wide experience in international cooperation in criminal matters in the EU. She was among the first appointed contact points of the European Judicial Network (EJN) in Poland, then conducted tasks as an expert on joint investigation teams, the National Correspondent of the EJN and, finally, as the Deputy National Member for Poland at Eurojust and the National Correspondent for Eurojust.
As a Seconded National Expert at the European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF (2007-2011), and further on as a member of OLAF’s Supervisory Committee (2016-2022) she contributed to the protection of the EU’s financial interests at the European level. 

Believing in a democratic state and the rule of law in Europe, she participated in OSCE’s (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) mission to Kosovo (2000-2001), and supervised the first parliamentary elections in Kosovo and presidential elections in Ukraine in 2004.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland and later on defended her PhD thesis titled: The European Prosecutor’s Office as an institution for the protection of the financial interests of the European Union. Structural, procedural and criminal law issues at the Kozminski University in Warsaw. She has published several articles on the protection of the financial interests of the EU, by OLAF and the EPPO. 

Appointed as the first European Prosecutor for Poland in December 2024 she started her mandate on 8 January 2025. 

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