Date of birth

1 October 1972

Place of birth

Vilnius, Lithuania

Education

2001

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

1996–2000

PhD in Classics, University of Cambridge, UK

1990–1996

Classical Philology, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University

1979–1990

Secondary School No 41 in Vilnius (currently Vilnius Karoliniškių Gymnasium); graduation with a silver medal

Work experience

2006–2008

President, Institute of Democratic Politics

2004–2008

Associate Professor, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University

2004–2006

International Programme Director, Civil Society Institute

2000–2004

Lecturer, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK

2000–2006

Lecturer, Gonville & Caius College Fellow, Cambridge University, UK

Since 1999

Council Member, Institute of Democratic Politics

Political career

2012–2016

Member of the 11th Seimas

Deputy Chair, Committee on Human Rights

2009–2015

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

2008–2012

Member of the 10th Seimas

Member, Committee on Education, Science and Culture

Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs

Chair, Seimas Delegation to the Baltic Assembly

2006–2008

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

Since 2000

Member, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

Miscellaneous

Membership: Member, Steering Committee, International Catholic Legislators Network (since 2012); Founder, Member of the Board, Ronald Reagan Freedom Centre (since 2012); Chairman, Classical Association, Lithuania (2007–2009); Member, Board of Scrutiny, University of Cambridge (2003–2004); Member, European Ideas Network (since 2004); Board Member, Cambridge University Catholic Association (2002–2004); President, Cambridge University Catholic Graduate Society (1999–2003); Member, IRI LEAP Team (2013), MDA; President, R. H. Benson Society, Cambridge University Catholic Graduate Society

Presentations: Plato, Presocratics, and the Question of Intellectual Genre (Symposium La costruzione di un discorso filosofico nell’eta dei Presocratici, Italy, 2004), Aspects of Heraclitus’ Reception before Plato (II Symposium Heracliteum, Mexico, 2006), What Form, if Any, Did Heraclitus’ Original Text Have? (IV International Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship: Textual Scholarship and the Canon, Vilnius, 2007), etc.

Publications: compiler of the books Hėrakleitas. Fragmentai (Heraclitus: Fragments), 1995; and Platonas. Kratilas (Plato: Cratylus), 1996; author of the articles Heraclitus on Religion, 1999; Self-reference, Textuality, and the Status of the Political Project in Plato’s Laws, 2001; Politinė teologija ir kas toliau (Political Theology and What’s Next?) (Source: Tradicijos likimas. Konservatyviosios minties metmenys/Fate of a Tradition: Outline of Conservative Thought, 2001); The Fluctuating Fortunes of Heraclitus in Plato (Source: Qu’est-ce que la philosophie présocratique?/What is Presocratic Philosophy? 2002); Plato Christianus (Source: Tikėjimo prieigos. Filosofinės studijos / Environs of Faith: Philosophical Studies, 2003); Krikščionybė ir dabarties politinės tvarkos legitimumas (Christianity and Legitimacy of the Current Political Order), 2003; The Failure of the Conservative Project in Lithuania (Source: Why We Lost. Explaining the Rise and Fall of the Center-Right Parties in Central Europe, 2005); Plato, Presocratics, and the Question of Intellectual Genre (Source: La costruzione del discorso filosofico nell’eta dei Presocratici, 2006); and Sudužęs veidrodis, arba apie intelektualų atsakomybę (Broken Mirror or about the Responsibility of Intellectuals) (Source: Nidos sąsiuviniai/Notebooks of Nida, 2006); co-author and compiler of Libertas et Pietas. Konservatizmo antologija 1993–2010 (Libertas et Pietas; Ontology of Conservatism), Vilnius, 2010; and Lietuvos tauta. Būklės ir raidos perspektyvų analizė (Lithuanian Nation: Analysis of the State and Prospects of Development), 2007; Globalios Lietuvos strategijos (Global Strategies of Lithuania), Vilnius, 2010; and Lietuvių kalbos ugdymo 2010–2014 metų strategijos (Strategies for the Enhancement of the Lithuanian Language in 2010–2014), Vilnius, 2010; co-author and compiler of Who is who in Belarus. The unofficial guide, Vilnius, 2013; co-author of Why we won, Bratislava, 2013; co-author and compiler of the collection of essays Lietuvos istorijos herojai (Heroes of the Lithuanian History), Vilnius, 2015; author of the collection of essays Konservatizmo sąsiuviniai I (Notebooks of Conservatism 1), Vilnius, 2015; and Konservatizmo sąsiuviniai II (Notebooks of Conservatism 2), Vilnius, 2016

Foreign languages: English, Italian, Russian, Latin, Ancient Greek, German, Polish

Hobbies: travelling, architecture, baroque

Family

Married with one child