CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Laima Liucija Andrikienė


EDUCATION

1964-1975 Druskininkai Secondary School (finished in 1975)
1966-1973 Druskininkai Seven-Year Music School, Piano Class (finished 1973)
1985-1980 Vilnius University, Faculty of Economic Cybernetics and Finance, LithuaniaDegree in Economics and Mathematics (graduated 1980)
1986 Ph.D. in Economics


WORK HISTORY

1980-1982 Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Computing Centre, 
LithuaniaEngineer
1982-19888 Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, LithuaniaResearcher, Senior Researcher
1988-1989 Manchester University, Department of Agricultural Economics, U.K.Post Doctoral Fellowship
1989-1990 Council of Ministers (Government) of LithuaniaAssistant to the Vice Prime Minister
1990-1992 Elected Member of the Supreme Council (Parliament) of LithuaniaSignatory of the Act of the Restoration of Independence of Lithuania
Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee
Member of the Committee on Budget and Finance
Elected Deputy Speaker 1992
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Tibet Support Group
1992-1996 Elected Member of the Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania
Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee
Chairman of the Parliamentary Tibet Support Group
Vice-Chairman of the Lithuanian-British Parliamentary Group
Member of the Lithuanian Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
1996 Re-elected to the Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania
Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee
Member of the European Affairs Committee 
December 4, 1996 Minister of Trade and Industry 
December 19, 1996- March 25, 1998 Minister of European Affairs
July,1998 Elected Head of the Lithuanian Delegation to the Baltic Assembly
November, 1998 Chairman, Presidium of the Baltic Assembly
May, 1999 Vice Chairman, Presidium of the Baltic Assembly
18 December, 1999 Elected Chairman of the Homeland People's Party


HONORS AND AWARDS

October,1997 National Order of the Grand Officer from the French Republic

Dr. Laima Andrikiene has been a member of Lithuanian Popular Movement Sajudis and elected to the Parliament in 1990 as a candidate of Sajudis as well as of Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees.

Dr. Laima Andrikiene has been one of the founding members of Lithuania's Homeland Union (Conservative Party) and has been its member from 1993 till 1998. During 1993-1998 she has been a member of the Executive Committee, Chairman of the Committee on International Relations.

During 1995-1998 Dr. Andrikiene was a Chairman of the European Committee of the Party, a body responsible for formulating and implementing her Party's policy on Lithuania's integration into the European Union.

From January 1999 L.Andrikiene is non-partisan, independent member of Parliament.

L.Andrikiene has signed the Founding Declaration of the Homeland People's Party on October 23, 1999 and has become a member of the Initiative group of this new moderate rightist party of Lithuania.

Dr. Andrikiene has participated in international conferences and has presented a number of papers on issues of national defence and security, foreign policy, economic reform, privatisation, and human rights. She has also published about 50 articles on economics, agricultural economics and politics.

In 1994 Dr. Andrikiene participated in the United States Information Agency (USIA) program on security and defence issues (multiregional approach) in Washington, D.C.

From January until May 1996 Dr. Andrikiene was on a Pew Fellowship at School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Andrikiene was born in 1958 in the town of Druskininkai, Lithuania. She is married and has a son Sarunas who is 16 years old.

Languages: Lithuanian (mother-tongue), English (fluent), Russian (fluent).