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Ingrida Šimonytė
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Šimonytė in 2019
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| 17th Prime Minister of Lithuania | |
| Assumed office 11 December 2020 |
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| President | Gitanas Nausėda |
| Preceded by | Saulius Skvernelis |
| Member of the Seimas | |
| Assumed office 14 November 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Andrius Kubilius |
| Constituency | Antakalnis |
| Deputy Chairwoman of the Board and Member of Board of the Bank of Lithuania | |
| In office 10 July 2013 – 31 October 2016 |
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| President | Vitas Vasiliauskas |
| Preceded by | Darius Petrauskas |
| Succeeded by | Raimondas Kuodis |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 7 July 2009 – 13 December 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | Andrius Kubilius |
| Preceded by | Algirdas Šemeta |
| Succeeded by | Rimantas Šadžius |
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| Born | 15 November 1974 Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union (now Vilnius, Lithuania) |
| Political party | Homeland Union (2022–present) Independent (until 2022) |
| Alma mater | Vilnius University (BA, MA) |
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Ingrida Šimonytė ( born 15 November 1974) is a Lithuanian politician, public servant and economist who is serving as the 17th and current prime minister of Lithuania since 2020.
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Early life and education
Šimonytė was born 15 November 1974 in Vilnius to a father who worked as a civil engineer, and a mother, Danutė Šimonienė, who worked as an economist. She moved to the Antakalnis district of Vilnius with her parents in 1984, where she spent most of her childhood and formative years. In 1992, Šimonytė graduated from the Vilnius Žirmūnai Gymnasium, where she was recognised and awarded for her academic skills in mathematics.
After graduating, she enrolled in the Faculty of Economics at Vilnius University, graduating with a degree in business administration in 1996. She subsequently returned to the institution, and received a master's degree in economics in 1998.
Political career
Šimonytė began her career as an economist and public servant, working as chief of the tax division within the Ministry of Finance until 2004. She remained in the tax division until being nominated to serve as finance minister in 2009, tasked with stimulating the Lithuanian economy in the aftermath of the Great Recession. She resigned from the position in 2012, and was appointed deputy chairperson of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania, and chairperson of Vilnius University Council, a professor of economics at the Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science, and of public finance at ISM University of Management and Economics.
Šimonytė returned to politics in 2016, when she ran as an independent candidate in the 2016 parliamentary election to represent Antakalnis constituency in Vilnius, ultimately winning a seat in parliament. In 2018, Šimonytė announced her campaign in the 2019 presidential election; she won the nomination of the Homeland Union. She narrowly won the first round of the election on 12 May 2019, before placing second behind fellow independent Gitanas Nausėda in the runoff on 26 May.
She was reelected to Parliament in the 2020 parliamentary election, where the Homeland Union won a plurality of seats. Following the certification of the election results, Šimonytė was proposed as the prime ministerial candidate by a coalition consisting of the Homeland Union, Liberal Movement and Freedom Party; she took office on 11 December, along with the appointment of her cabinet. In October 2023, Šimonytė announced that she would once again run for president in the 2024 presidential election.
Personal life
In addition to her native Lithuanian, Šimonytė also speaks English, Polish, and Russian, as well as basic-level Swedish. She is unmarried and has no children. The Good Soldier Švejk, a satirical dark comedy by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, is one of Šimonytė's favorite books, whose characters she has often publicly quoted during her political career.
Honours and awards
Honours
National honours
Lithuania: Officer's Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great (16 February 2015)
Awards
- „Baltoji banga“ award for 'transparent and accountable activity' (2012)
- Delfi Women of the Year 2019 (Politics) (26 July 2019)
- Delfi Women of the Year 2020 (Politics) (19 August 2020)
Images for kids
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Šimonytė at the 2010 Baltic Development Forum in Vilnius.
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Šimonytė and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal visited the Luhansk Oblast on 11 February 2022.
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Šimonytė meets with Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in July 2023
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Countries visited by Šimonytė as of November 2021
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Šimonytė in Ukraine, 11 April 2022
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Ingrida Šimonytė during meeting of prime ministers of Lublin Triangle in Kyiv, 2022
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See also
In Spanish: Ingrida Šimonytė para niños
