Date of birth

18 August 1952

Place of birth

Klaipėda, Lithuania

Education

1970–1974

Diploma with Honours of PE Teacher, Lithuanian State Institute of Physical Education (currently Lithuanian Sports University)

1970

Kristijonas Donelaitis Secondary School in Klaipėda (currently Vytautas Magnus Gymnasium)

Work experience

1990–2016

Founder and Head of Palanga Health School

1987–1990

Head, Physical Education Board, State Committee of Physical Education and Sports

1982–1987

Chairman, Sports Committee of Palanga

Until 1982

Teacher; Coach; Deputy Director, Yacht Club; Director, Sailing School in Klaipėda; Deputy Chairman, Sports Committee

Political career

Deputy Chair, Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union

Since 2014

Deputy Chair, Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union

2012–2016

Chairman, Pajūrio Division of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union

1999–2004

Chairman, Division of the Christian Democratic Union in Palanga

Miscellaneous

Activities: founding and heading of Palanga Health School with more than 31,000 Lithuanian and foreign graduates (500 graduating classes) in the period from 1990 to 2016; contribution to the restoration of the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee (1989); running of various courses in Lithuania; presentations at events in Israel, USA, Russia, Uruguay, Spain, Sweden and Finland; organisation of trainings in the Baltic States, Norway, etc.; organisation of world’s biggest winter-bathing events; coaching of Petras Silkinas, 1,000-mile distance world champion and Guinness world record owner; teaching of healthy lifestyle trainers; organisation of many events of healthy lifestyle; founding of more than 60 healthy lifestyle clubs in Lithuania; founding of the Lithuanian Healthy Lifestyle and Natural (alternative and complementary) Medicine Chamber

Membership: Member, General Assembly, Lithuanian National Olympic Committee; President, Lithuanian Union of Healthy Lifestyle Supporters (1990–2016); Member of the Council, Lithuanian Public Health Association; Member of the Council, Lithuanian Association Sport for All; Member, American Public Health Association; Member, European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity; Honorary Member, Presidium, Russian Academy of Sciences; Chairman of the Council, Community Palangos Rytai

Awards: acknowledgments by the Seimas and the Government of the Republic of Lithuania; Honorary Badge and Olympic Star of the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee; Sports Cross of Honour and Medal For Merits to Lithuanian Sport; St. Casimir Honorary Medal

Foreign languages: English, Russian

Hobbies: marathon, valeology, information technologies, travelling

Family

Married with two children