Date of birth

28 June 1958

Place of birth

Zarasai, Lithuania

Education

1976–1981

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering for Communications, Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport (currently Saint Petersburg State Transport University)

1965–1976

Marytės Melnikaitės Secondary School in Zarasai (currently Ąžuolo gimnazija (upper secondary school))

Work experience

1997–2007

Deputy Mayor, Zarasai District Municipality

1989–1997

Chief Engineer for Marketing, public enterprise AB Zarasaitis

1987–1989

Instructor, Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party in Zarasai

1986–1987

Mechanical Engineer, Board of Motorway Management in Zarasai

1981–1986

Chief Mechanical Engineer, Locomotive Roundhouse in Vilnius

Political career

2016–2020

Member of the 12th Seimas

Member, Committee on Social Affairs and Labour

Member, Commission for the Rights of People with Disabilities (2017–2020)

Member, Commission for Ethics and Procedures

Member, Deputy Chair, Commission for Addiction Prevention (2016–2017)

Member, Commission for Addiction Prevention

2012–2016

Member of the 11th Seimas

Member, Committee on Social Affairs and Labour

Chair, Migration Commission (2016)

Member, Commission for Energy

Member, Commission for Ethics and Procedures (2015–2016)

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

2008–2012

Member of the 10th Seimas

Member, Committee on Social Affairs and Labour

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

Member, Commission for Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Addiction

Member, Commission for Nuclear Energy

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

2002–2019

Member, Party ‘Order and Justice’

2002–2019

Member, Board of the Party ‘Order and Justice’; Chairman, Division of the Party ‘Order and Justice’ in Zarasai; Coordinator for Utena County

1997–2002

Member, Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party

Miscellaneous

Member of the Board, charity and support fund Išgirsk mane (for severely ill children); Member, Lithuanian–Flemish Society; luminary of donation of human tissues, cells and organs

Languages: Russian, Polish, German

Hobbies: outdoor recreation, travelling, politics

Family

Married with two sons