Leonidas Donskis
Leonidas Donskis was born on August 13, 1962 in Klaipėda, Lithuania. He is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), political theorist, historian, social analyst and philosopher.
Political Career
In 2009, Leonidas Donskis was asked to campaign for the European Parliament by the Lithuanian Liberal Movement Party as their number one candidate. He is now part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group (ALDE), the third largest political group in the European Parliament. Moreover, he is a member of the Development Committee and member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and also a substitute member at the committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. He works as a full member of the EU and Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee delegation, as well as, the delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the EURONEST.
Education
Leonidas Donskis has several PhDs from the Department of Philosophy in Vilnius (1990) and another from the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy of the University of Helsinki (1999). He also received an honorary Doctorate from the University of Bradford in 2010. He was Professor and Dean at the Vytautas Magnus University School of Political Science and Diplomacy, in Kaunas, Lithuania before being elected to the European Parliament. In addition to that, he acts as a visiting professor in several universities, including Bologna, Helsinki, and Tallinn.
Notable Work
Leonidas Donskis has been awarded the title of the Ambassador for Tolerance and Diversity by the European Commission in Lithuania in 2004. Moreover, Donskis has published in several international journals, and is the author or editor of more than forty books, Donskis’s works that have been translated from Lithuanian and English into Danish, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
