Date of birth	10 April 1951
Place of birth	Sėlynė Village, Rokiškis District, Lithuania

Education
1969–1974	Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture (currently Aleksandras Stulginskis University), Diploma of Mechanical Engineer
1966–1969	Edvardas Tičkus Secondary School (currently Juozas-Tumas Vaižgantas Gymnasium) in Rokiškis

Work experience
2011–2012	Deputy Director, Administration of Rokiškis District Municipality
2009–2011	Assistant-Secretary to a Member of the Seimas
1999–2000	Commercial Director, public company AB Obelių aliejus
1994–1997	Governor, Rokiškis branch of the Agricultural Bank of Lithuania
1991–1992	Chairman of the Board, Vengerynė Agricultural Company
1989–1991	Director, Rokiškis State Poultry Enterprise
1982–1989	Chief Mechanical Engineer, Rokiškis State Poultry Enterprise
1978–1979	Deputy Director, collective farm Laimė, Rokiškis District
1981–1982, 1974–1978	Mechanical Engineer, L. Gira collective farm, Rokiškis District

Political career
	Member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party
Since 2012	Member, Committee on Audit
	Chair, Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation
	Member, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party Political Group
	Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
2008–2011	Member, Rokiškis District Municipal Council
2004–2008	Deputy Chair, Committee on European Affairs
	Member, Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities
	Member, Committee on Audit
	Member, then Deputy Chair, Anticorruption Commission
	Member, Commission on the Problems of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
	Member, Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation
	Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
2000–2004	Member, Committee on European Affairs
	Member, Committee on Legal Affairs
	Member, Committee on Budget and Finance
	Deputy Chair, Commission on the Problems of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
1997–2001	Member, Board of Rokiškis District Municipality
1992–1996	Member, Committee on Budget and Finance
1990–2003	Member, Rokiškis District Municipal Council
Since 2001	Member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party and of the Council of the Party
1990–2001	Member of the Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party

Miscellaneous

Officer in the Soviet Army (1979–1981)

Former Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1978–1989)

Interests: rural affairs, budget and finance, regional policy, investment programmes

Languages: Lithuanian (native), German, Russian

Hobbies: picking mushrooms, hunting, theatre

Family

Married with two daughters and one son