Date of birth

17 January 1958

Place of birth

Vilnius, Lithuania

Education

1990

Politics and Economics, World Press Institute, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

1982–1989

Diploma of Journalist, Faculty of History, Vilnius State University (currently Vilnius University)

1976–1977

Journalism, Faculty of History, Vilnius State University; expelled for relations with the Lithuanian Helsinki Group

1964–1976

Antanas Vienuolis Secondary School in Vilnius (currently Antanas Vienuolis Basic School and Vytautas Magnus Gymnasium)

Work experience

2001–2004

Director General, Translation, Documentation and Information Centre under the Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania

1993–1996

Manager of (the first in Lithuania) PR Consultative Centre Multum Creditum

1991–1993

Head, Information Analysis Department, Office of the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas

1990–1992

Spokesman for the Chairman of the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas

1989–1990

Reporter, Atgimimas, weekly of the Lithuanian Reform Movement Sąjūdis

1979–1988

Editor and Journalist, Lithuanian State Committee on Publishing Houses, Polygraphy and Book Trade; Lithuanian Scientific Methodological Cultural Centre; Lithuanian State Television and Radio Committee, Lithuanian State Film Rent Bureau

Political career

Member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

2012–2016

Member of the 11th Seimas

Deputy Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs

Member, Committee on European Affairs

2011

Chairman-in-Office, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe

2010–2012

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

2008–2012

Member of the 10th Seimas

Member, Committee on European Affairs

Member, Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs

Member, Commission for Nuclear Energy

Member, Head, Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Deputy Head, 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

Member, Committee on European Affairs

Member, Deputy Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs

Member, Commission for NATO Affairs

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Since 1998

Member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

1996–2000

Member of the 7th Seimas

Deputy Chair, Committee on European Affairs

Member, Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs

Member, Commission for Ethics and Procedures

Member, Commission for NATO Affairs

Miscellaneous

Service in the Soviet Army (1977–1979)

Activities: President, Lithuanian and Great Britain Association British Chamber of Commerce (1998–2000); President, National Magazine Publishers’ Association (2001–2003), supporter of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group; Member of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union

Awards: Third Class Order for Merits to the Republic of Ukraine (2007), Commemorative Badge on the occasion of Lithuania’s invitation to join NATO (2003), Commemorative Medal of 13 January (1999); Second Class Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana of the Republic of Estonia (2013); Order of Honour for service to the State of Georgia (2014)

Interests: foreign and European policy of Lithuania, national security and defence

Languages: Lithuanian (native), English, Russian

Hobbies: historical literature, gardening, skiing, angling

Family

Married with two daughters