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Committees of the Seimas
| 05/10/2024 | Committee on Health Affairs, Deputy Chair |
| 11/12/2021 - 05/09/2024 | Committee on Health Affairs, Member |
| 11/19/2020 - 03/15/2022 | Committee on European Affairs, Deputy Chair |
| 11/19/2020 - 11/11/2021 | Committee on Social Affairs and Labour, Member |
Commissions of the Seimas
| 11/24/2020 - 03/15/2022 | Commission for Addiction Prevention, Member |
Political groups of the Seimas
| 12/08/2022 | Non-attached Members, Member |
| 05/27/2022 - 12/08/2022 | Non-attached Member of the Seimas, Member |
| 03/10/2022 - 05/26/2022 | Non-attached Members, Member |
| 11/13/2020 - 03/10/2022 | Labour Party Political Group, Member |
Parliamentary groups
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Date of birth |
19 March 1979 |
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Place of birth |
Kaunas, Lithuania |
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Education |
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2013 |
Associate Professor, Kaunas University of Technology |
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2009 |
Doctor of Social Science, Kaunas University of Technology |
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2004 |
Master’s in Political Science, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University |
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Bachelor’s in Political Science, Minor Degree in Business Administration, Vytautas Magnus University |
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1997 |
Vinco Kudirkos Secondary School in Kaunas (currently Vinco Kudirkos progimnazija (lower secondary school)) |
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Work experience |
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2004–2016 |
Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology |
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2007–2008 |
Director, public agency VšĮ BC Kauno Atletas (formerly administered clubs: Aisčiai-Atletas of the Lithuanian Basketball League; KKM Aisčiai of the National Basketball League; Kauno Aistės of the Lithuanian Women’s Basketball League) |
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2002–2003 |
Foreign News Editor, News Service, private company UAB Laisvas ir nepriklausomas kanalas (Free and Independent Channel; LNK Television) |
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2001–2002 |
Project Coordinator, public establishment VšĮ Socius Sanus |
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1995–1999 |
Freelance Correspondent, newspapers Kauno diena, Kauno žinios, and Vytautas Magnus |
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Political career |
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Member, Labour Party |
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Since 2019 |
Member of the Labour Party; Chairman, Division of the Labour Party in Kaunas City |
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2016–2020 |
Member of the 12th Seimas |
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Deputy Chair, Committee on European Affairs |
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Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs (2016–2019) Member, Subcommittee on Transatlantic Relations and Democratic Development (2017–2019) |
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Member, Committee on Human Rights (2019–2020) |
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Member, Migration Commission |
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Member, Commission for Healthy Lifestyle (2019–2020) |
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Member, Deputy Head (2018–2019), Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly |
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Head, Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Japan; Deputy Head, Groups for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the State of Israel, and the Republic of Croatia |
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Miscellaneous |
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Scientific and practical interests: international relations, foreign policy, diplomacy, international comparative management, history and development of civilisations, geopolitics, clusters, inter-organisational relations, innovation and training in the Baltic Sea Region |
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Public activities: founder of the youth association Rytojaus Lietuva, which unites students, pupils, teachers, lecturers and young professionals of various fields in Lithuania and abroad; co-founder of the Academic Cognitive Science Club of Kaunas University of Technology; former member of the Board, spokesman, Academic Club of Political Scientists; organiser, project leader, coordinator and host of international and local conferences, seminars, Olympiad of Political Scientists; former member of the Board, Lithuanian Atlantic Treaty Association |
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Interests: love since childhood for basketball and the team Žalgiris; former professional referee of the basketball leagues in Kaunas and Lithuania Hobbies: basketball, reading, healthy lifestyle, Baltic culture and ancient history, horse riding, field tennis, ecology, cognitive trips, biomedicine, hermeneutics in international relations and evolution of civilisations |
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Languages: fluent in Lithuanian, English and Russian; knowledge of Polish and French |
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Family |
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Wife Indrė, sons Mykolas and Margiris |
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