Members of the Seimas 

Date of birth

Place of birth

Education

2001

1996–2000

1990–1996

1979–1990

1 October 1972

Vilnius, Lithuania

PhD thesis Natura in fluxu: Platonic reception for Presocratic cosmological theories

PhD in Classics, University of Cambridge, UK

Classical Philology, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University

Secondary School No 41 in Vilnius (currently Vilnius Karoliniškių Gymnasium)

Work experience

2006–2008

2004–2008

2004–2006

2000–2006

Since 2002

2000–2004

1999–2002

President, Institute of Democratic Politics

Associate Professor, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University

Programme Director, Civil Society Institute

Lecturer, Gonville & Caius College Fellow, Cambridge University
Co-Founder, Institute of Democratic Politics

Lecturer, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

Council Member, Institute of Democratic Politics

Political career

Since 2012

Since 2009

2008–2012

2006–2007

Since 1999

Member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

Deputy Chair, Committee on Human Rights

Member, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group

Chairman, Assembly of the Divisions of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats in Vilnius

Member, Committee on Education, Science and Culture

Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs

Member, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group

Chair, Seimas Delegation to the Baltic Assembly

Member, working group on the development of higher education reform principles commissioned by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania

Adviser to Andrius Kubilius, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania

Member, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

Publications

Books:

Hėrakleitas. Fragmentai [Heraclitus. Fragments], publication of Greek text, translation, introduction, comments, 1995; Platonas. Kratilas [Plato. Cratylus], translation, introduction, comments, 1996

Articles:

Heraclitus on Religion (Phronesis, 1999), Self-reference, Textuality, and the Status of the Political Project in Plato’s Laws (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2001), and other articles

Miscellaneous

Since 2004

2007–2009

2003–2004

2002–2004

1999–2003

Hobbies

Foreign languages

Member of European Ideas Network

Chairman of Classical Association, Lithuania

Member, Board of Scrutiny, University of Cambridge

Board Member, Cambridge University Catholic Association

President, R. H. Benson Society, Cambridge University Catholic Graduate Society

Travelling, architecture, baroque

English, Italian, Russian, Latin, German, French, Polish, Ancient Greek

Family

Married with one child