Curriculum vitae

LAIMA LIUCIJA ANDRIKIENĖ

 

Born in Druskininkai, Lithuania, in 1958

 

EDUCATION

 

2004

Associate Professor, Social Sciences

1986

Doctorate in Social Sciences (nostrified by the Research Council of Lithuania, 1994)

1975-1980

Degree in Economics and Mathematics; Economic Cybernetics, Vilnius University

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

16 November 2022

Member of the European Court of Auditors

Member of Chamber V

November 2020 – 14 November 2022

Member of the 13th Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania

 

Member and Chair (January 2022  - November 2022) of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

 

Member and Deputy Chair (November 2020 - March 2022) of the Committee on European Affairs

 

Member (November 2020 - March 2022) of the Committee for the Future

January 2022- November 2022

Vice Chair of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)

January 2021 –January 2022

Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)

June-July 2020

Head of the Special Election Assessment Mission of the OSCE/ODIHR to the Republic of North Macedonia

2020

Member of the Board, PA International Foundation

2016-2019

Member of the European Parliament (from June 2016)

 

Member of the Committee on International Trade

 

Substitute Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

 

Member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence

 

First Vice Chair of the EP Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan, EU- Tajikistan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and for relations with Turkmenistan and Mongolia

2014-2016

Member of the Board, PA International Foundation

2009-2014

Member of the European Parliament

 

Member of the Committee on International Trade

 

Substitute Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

 

Member and Vice Chair (2009-2012) of the Subcommittee on Human Rights

2004-2009

Member of the European Parliament

 

Member of the Committee on Budgets

 

Substitute Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

 

Member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights

2003-2004

Dean of the Faculty of Public Management, Law University of Lithuania

2002-2004

Director of the Institute of EU Policy and Management and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Law University of Lithuania

2001-2003

Chair of the Board, JSC Laitenis

1996-2000

Member of the 7th Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania

 

Member (1996-2000) and Vice Chair (2000) of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

 

Member of the Committee on European Affairs (1998-2000)

 

Head of the Lithuanian Delegation to the Baltic Assembly (1998-2000)

1996-1998

Minister of European Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

1996

Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Lithuania

1992-1996

Member of the 6th Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania

 

Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

1990-1992

Member of the Supreme Council - Reconstituent Seimas of Lithuania

 

Signatory of the Act of the Restoration of Independence of Lithuania

 

Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

 

Member of the Budget Committee

October 1989 – March 1990

Assistant to the Deputy ChairoftheCouncilofMinistersofthe Lithuanian SSR

1983-1989

Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Research Institute of Agricultural Economics

1980-1983

Engineer at the Computing Centre of the Lithuanian Research Institute of Agricultural Economics

 

POLITICAL AFFILIATION

Since 2018

Member of the Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees

Since 2003

Member, member of the Council (2004-2022) and member of the Presidium (2004-2014) of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats

2001-2003

Founding member and member of the Lithuanian Union of the Right

1999-2001

Founding member (1999), member and chair of the Homeland People’s Party

1993-1998

Founding member (1993), member and Board member of the Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives)

1988-1993

Member of the Lithuanian Popular Movement Sąjūdis; member of the Seimas of the Lithuanian Popular Movement Sąjūdis (1992-1993)

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Author of academic monographs, books and articles in Lithuanian, English, French and other languages.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS: Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit of the French Republic (1997); Independence Medal of the Republic of Lithuania (2000); Medal ‘Ubi concordia, ibi victoria’ of the Baltic Assembly (2003); Cross of Commander of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (2004); Honorary Doctor (Honoris Causa) of Kingston University (United Kingdom) (2007); Golden Sign of Honor of the Confederation of Lithuanian Industrialists (2008); Medal of the Founders and Volunteers of the Lithuanian Army (2012); Diplomacy Award from the Republic of China (Taiwan) (2014); Order of the President of Georgia (2014); MEP of the Year 2018 in international trade (The Parliament Magazine, Brussels); Order of Isabella the Catholic from the Kingdom of Spain (2020).