Andriukaitis, Vytenis Povilas

Name: Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis

Years active: 11/16/2012

Party: Lithuanian Social Democratic Party Political Group, Member (from 11/16/2012)

Roles

• Since 2012: Member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party
• 2008–2012: Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania
• 2008–2012: Member, Committee on European Affairs
• 2008–2012: Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs
• 2008–2012: Member, Constitutional Commission
• Since 2008: Member, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party Political Group
• Since 2008: Deputy Chair, Committee on European Affairs
• Since 2008: Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Since 2008: Member, Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation
• 2000–2004: Deputy Chair, Seimas Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
• 1996–2000: Deputy Chairman of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party
• 1996–2000: Deputy Speaker, Leader of the Opposition, Member of the Board of the Seimas
• 1996–2000: Member, Committee of Foreign Affairs
• 1996–2000: Member, Committee on Legal Affairs
• 1996–2000: Chair, Committee on European Affairs
• 1996–2000: Member, Commission on NATO Affairs
• 1996–2000: Head, Lithuanian Delegation to the European Convention
• 1996–2000: Deputy Chair, Member, Seimas Delegation to the Baltic Assembly
• 1996–2000: Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Sejm of the Republic of Poland
• 1992–1996: Member, Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities
• 1992–1996: Member, Seimas Delegation to the Baltic Assembly
• 1990–1992: Deputy Chair, Committee on Health and Social Affairs
• 1990–1992: Member, Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
• 1999–2001: Member of the working group for drafting documents for March 11
• 1988–1989: Chairman, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP)
• Since 1969: Initiator of the re-establishment of the LSDP, Member of the initiative group for the restoration of the activities of the LSDP, Member of the Lithuanian Reform Movement Sąjūdis
• Since 1969: Active involvement in the anti-Soviet underground movement

Education

• 1979–1984: Historian, teacher of history and political sciences, diploma cum laude, Faculty of History, Vilnius State University (currently Vilnius University)
• 1969–1975: Diploma of surgeon, Kaunas Medical Institute (currently Lithuanian University of Health Sciences)
• 1958–1969: Secondary School No 24 in Kaunas (currently Jonas and Petras Vileišiai Secondary School), graduation with honours

History

He was born August 9, 1951 in Kiusiur Village, Bulunsk Region, Yakut ASSR. Married with three children. Signatory to the March 11 Act on the Re-establishment of the State of Lithuania President of the Lithuanian Handball Federation

Awards: Medal of the 20th Anniversary of Restoration of Independence (2010); award for merits to medicine (2005); Commemorative Statute Gražina on the occasion of Lithuania’s accession to NATO (2004); Cross of Commander of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (2004); Ordent do Merito Gra-Cruz of the Republic of Portugal (2003); Medal of the Baltic Assembly for upholding the unity and cooperation of the Baltic States (2002); Lithuanian Independence Medal (2000); Commemorative Medal of 13 January (1996)

Interests: political science, history, sociology, law and healthcare

Publications: co-author of 44 book and author of 616 press articles on the history of medicine, surgery, political science, labour market organization and other issues

Foreign languages: English, Polish, Russian and German

Hobbies: music, literature, travelling and sports

External Links and References

• Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania