Date of birth

1 April 1958

Place of birth

Syktyvkar, Komi Autonomous Republic (currently Komi Republic), Russia

Education

2000–2003

Master’s in Law, Law University of Lithuania (currently Mykolas Romeris University)

1998–2002

Study Programme in Law and Management, Law University of Lithuania

1976–1981

Engineer of Automated Control Systems, Faculty of Automatics, Kaunas Polytechnic Institute (currently Kaunas University of Technology)

1968–1976

Secondary School No 1 in Jonava (currently Jonavos Jeronimas Ralys gimnazija (upper secondary school))

Work experience

April–October 2000

Auditor, Alytus City Municipality

1999–2000

Chief Personnel Inspector, Alytus County State Tax Inspectorate

1995–1998

Chief Inspector, Alytus City State Tax Inspectorate

1994–1995

Head of the Secretariat, Alytus City Municipal Council

1993–1994

Director, private company UAB Gebenė

1984–1993

Chief Energy Expert, Occupational Safety Engineer, Third Mechanisation Department in Alytus

1981–1984

Engineer, Refrigerator Manufacturing Plant in Alytus

Political career

Member, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party

2016–2020

Member of the 12th Seimas

Opposition Leader of the Seimas, Member of the Board of the Seimas (2019–2020)

Chair (2016–2017), Member (2016–2020), Committee on Legal Affairs

Member, Constitutional Commission (2018–2020)

Member, Anticorruption Commission (2019–2020)

Member, Freedom Prize Commission (2019–2020)

2015–2017

Deputy Chair, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party

2012–2016

Member of the 11th Seimas

Chair, Committee on Legal Affairs

Member, Constitutional Commission

2008–2012

Member of the 10th Seimas

Deputy Chair, Committee on Legal 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

2004–2008

Member of the 9th Seimas

Chair, Committee on Legal Affairs

Member, Constitutional Commission

2000–2004

Member of the 8th Seimas

Member, Chair (July–November 2004), Committee on Legal Affairs

Member, Petitions Commission

1997–2000

Member, Board of Alytus City Municipality

1990–2000

Member, Alytus City Municipal Council

Since 1995

Member of the Presidium and the Council, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party

1990–1995

Deputy Chair, Alytus City Municipal Council

Since 1989

Member, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party

Miscellaneous

President of the Lithuanian Chess Federation (2002–2005)

Interests: public administration and local self-government

Hobbies: history and chess

Languages: English, Russian and Polish

Family

Married with two daughters