Date of birth

20 February 1944

Place of birth

Siesikai Village, Ukmergė District, Lithuania

Education

1978–1981

Leningrad (currently St Petersburg) Higher School of Party Education, correspondence studies, State Management

1961–1966

Vilnius University, Faculty of Economics, Diploma of Finance Manager

1953–1961

Secondary School in Siesikai (currently Siesikai Gymnasium), Ukmergė District

1950–1953

Primary School in Belazariškiai Village, Ukmergė District

Work experience

1997–2000

Director, export and import terminal, public company AB Šaldytuvų ūkis

1996–1997

Director, private insurance company UAB Lamantinas

1994–1996

Minister of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania

1991–1994

Deputy Director General, Environment Protection Department

1989–1991

Deputy Chairman for fauna protection, Lithuanian State Nature Protection Committee

1976–1989

Chairman of the Planning Commission, then Deputy Chairman, Executive Committee of Vilnius District

1972–1976

Head, Finance Division, Executive Committee of Vilnius District

1966–1972

Economist, Senior Economist, Finance Division; then Deputy Head, Personnel Division, Executive Committee of Vilnius City

Political career

Member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party; Chairman of Honour, Division of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party in Kaišiadorys District

2012–2016

Member of the 11th Seimas

Chair (2012–2015), Deputy Chair (2015–2016), Committee on Budget and Finance

Member, Anticorruption Commission

Since 2009

Chairman, Division of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party in Kaišiadorys

2008–2012

Member of the 10th Seimas

Deputy Chair, Committee on Audit

Member, Anticorruption Commission

Member, Commission for Maritime and Fishery Affairs

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of Members of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland, and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

2004–2008

Member of the 9th Seimas

Deputy Chair, Committee on Budget and Finance

Chair, Committee on Environment Protection

Member, Anticorruption Commission

Member, Commission for Maritime and Fishery Affairs

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Baltic Assembly

2000–2004

Member of the 8th Seimas

Member, Chair, Committee on Budget and Finance

Deputy Chair, Commission for Investigation of Economic Crime

Member, Deputy Chair, Anticorruption Commission

Member, Commission for Maritime and Fishery Affairs

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland

Since 2001

Member, Council Member, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party

Deputy Chairman, Division of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party in Vilnius District

1990–2001

Member, Council Member, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party

Chairman, Division of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party in Vilnius District

Miscellaneous

Chairman, Vilnius City Board, Hunting and Angling Society

Member, National Board, Lithuanian Hunting and Angling Society

Citizen of Honour of Kaišiadorys District

Foreign languages: Russian, Polish, German

Hobbies: mushroom picking, hunting, angling

Family

Married with two children