Date of birth

28 October 1958

Place of birth

Mankūnai Village, Alytus District, Lithuania

Education

Since 2013

Studies of Management, Kaunas University of Technology

1964–1975

Miroslavas Secondary School, Alytus District

Work experience

1992–1996

Co-founder and Manager, private company UAB Ordo

Political career

Member, Party “Order and Justice”

2012–2016

Member of the 11th Seimas

Member, Chair (2012–2016), Order and Justice Political Group

Member, Committee on European Affairs (2016)

Member, Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities

Member, Commission for Ethics and Procedures (2012–2015)

Member, Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation (2012–2013)

2008–2012

Member of the 10th Seimas

Member, Committee on Education, Science and Culture

Member, Committee on Legal Affairs

Member, Anticorruption Commission

Member, Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation

2004–2008

Member of the 9th Seimas

Member, Committee on Rural Affairs

Member, Committee on Human Rights

2001–2004

Chairman, Board of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party

2000–2004

Member of the 8th Seimas

Member, Committee on Rural Affairs

Member, Committee on Legal Affairs

Member, Commission for Drafting Constitutional Amendments

Member, Commission for Supervising the Implementation of the Constitutional Law on the Implementation of Paragraph 3 of Article 47 of the Constitution

Deputy Chair, Member, Commission for Sustainable Development and Protection of Immovable Cultural Properties

2000–2003

Member, Klaipėda District Municipal Council

1996–2000

Member of the 7th Seimas

Member, Committee on Rural Affairs

1990–1995

Member, Kaunas City Municipal Council

Member, Committee on Education and Culture

1990–1994

Chairman, Division of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party in Kaunas

1989

Member, Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party, one of the initiators of the re-establishment of the Party

Miscellaneous

Activities: initiation of the weekly Apžvalga (Review) by the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party; close cooperation with the members of the Committee on Believers’ Rights; Member of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights; distribution of Lietuvos Katalikų Bažnyčios Kronika (Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic Church); imprisonment in Lukiškės and Pravieniškės, Lithuania, and in Mordovia for anti-Soviet activities (1988)

Languages: Lithuanian (native), Russian, French

Hobbies: sport, music

Family

Four children