Members of the Seimas 

Date of birth

20 July 1941

Place of birth

Žaliablėkiai Village, Šakiai District, Lithuania

Education

1990–1991

Lithuanian Management Academy, Diploma of Commercial Manager

1960–1965

Faculty of Agronomy, Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture (currently Aleksandras Stulginskis University), Diploma of Research Agronomist

1947–1958

Griškabūdis Secondary School in Šakiai District

Work experience

2003–2004

Deputy Director, Vilnius State Food and Veterinary Service

2001–2003

Deputy Director, State Food Product Inspection of the State Food and Veterinary Service

1995–2001

Deputy Director, Chief of the Inspection, State Quality Inspection under the State Competition and Consumer Rights Protection Authority

1992–1995

Deputy Chief, State Quality Inspection under the Lithuanian Standards Board

1989–1992

Chief, Lithuanian State Agricultural and Food Product Quality Inspection under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania

1988–1989

First Deputy Chairman/Minister, State Agro-Industrial Committee of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania

1985–1988

Deputy Chairman, State Agro-Industrial Committee of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania

1981–1985

Deputy Minister, Ministry of Agriculture of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania

1977–1981

Chief, Agricultural Board, Vilkaviškis District

1973–1977

Deputy Chief, Agricultural Board, Ukmergė District

1968–1973

Chief, collective farm Didysis spalis, Šiauliai District

1965–1968

Chief Agronomist, Kuršėnai state farm, Šiauliai District

1958−1960

Head and Accountant, Library and the Reading Room, Julius Janonis collective farm, Šakiai District

Political career

Member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party

Since 2012

Deputy Chair, Committee on Rural Affairs

Member, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party Political Group

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Baltic Assembly

Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

2008–2012

Member, Committee on Rural Affairs

Deputy Chair, Commission for Maritime and Fishery Affairs

Member, Economics, Energy and Innovation Committee, Seimas Delegation to the Baltic Assembly

2004–2008

Member, Committee on Rural Affairs

Chair, Commission for Maritime and Fishery Affairs

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Baltic Assembly