Ažubalis, Audronius

Name: Ažubalis Audronius

Years active: 11/16/2012

Party: Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group, Member (from 11/16/2012)

Roles

• Since 2012: Member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats
• Since 2012: Deputy Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs
• 2011: Member, Committee on European Affairs
• 2011: Member, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group
• 2011: Chairman-in-Office, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
• 2010–2012: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania
• 2008–2012: Member, Committee on European Affairs
• 2004–2008: Member, Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs
• 2004–2008: Member, Commission for Nuclear Energy
• 2004–2008: Chair, Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
• 2004–2008: Deputy Chair, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of Members of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland, and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• 2004–2008: Member, Committee on European Affairs
• 2004–2008: Deputy Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs
• 2004–2008: Member, Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
• 2004–2008: Member, Seimas Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
• Since 1998: Member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats
• 1996–2000: Deputy Chair, Committee on European Affairs
• 1996–2000: Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs
• 1996–2000: Member, Commission for Ethics and Procedures
• 1996–2000: Member, Commission for NATO Affairs

Education

• 1990: Politics and Economics, World Press Institute, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
• 1982–1989: Diploma of Journalist, Faculty of History, Vilnius State University (currently Vilnius University)
• 1976–1977: Journalism, Faculty of History, Vilnius State University; expelled for relations with the Lithuanian Helsinki Group
• 1964–1976: Antanas Vienuolis Secondary School in Vilnius (currently Antanas Vienuolis Basic School and Vytautas Magnus Gymnasium)

History

He was born January 17, 1958 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Married with two daughters.

Activities: President, Lithuanian and Great Britain Association British Chamber of Commerce (1998–2000); President, National Magazine Publishers’ Association (2001–2003), service in the Soviet Army (1977–1979), supporter of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group

Awards: Third Class Order for Merits to the Republic of Ukraine (2007), Commemorative Badge on the occasion of Lithuania’s invitation to join NATO (2003), Commemorative Medal of 13 January (1999)

Interests: foreign and European policy of Lithuania, national security and defence

Languages: Lithuanian (native), English, Russian

Hobbies: historical literature, gardening, skiing, angling

Work experience:

• 2001–2004: Director General, Translation, Documentation and Information Centre under the Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
• 1993–1996: Manager of (the fist in Lithuania) PR Consultative Centre Multum Creditum
• 1991–1993: Head, Information Analysis Department, Office of the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas
• 1991-1993: Spokesman for the Chairman of the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas
• 1990–1992: Reporter, Atgimimas, weekly of the Lithuanian Reform Movement Sąjūdis
• 1989–1990: Editor and Journalist, Lithuanian State Committee on Publishing Houses, Polygraphy and Book Trade; Lithuanian Scientific Methodological Cultural Centre; Lithuanian State Television and Radio Committee, Lithuanian State Film Rent Bureau

External Links and References

• Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania