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Gitanas Nausėda
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Official portrait, 2020
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| 9th President of Lithuania | |
| Assumed office 12 July 2019 |
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| Prime Minister | Saulius Skvernelis Ingrida Šimonytė Gintautas Paluckas |
| Preceded by | Dalia Grybauskaitė |
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| Born | 19 May 1964 Klaipėda, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Independent |
| Other political affiliations |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1988–1991) |
| Spouse |
Diana Nausėdienė
(m. 1990) |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Presidential Palace, Vilnius |
| Education | Vilnius University |
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Gitanas Nausėda [ɡɪˈtɐ.nɐs nɐˈu.sʲeː.dɐ] (born 19 May 1964) is a Lithuanian politician, economist, and banker who is serving as the ninth and incumbent president of Lithuania since 2019.
On 7 December 2023, Nausėda announced his decision to run for re-election in the 2024 Lithuanian presidential election and was re-elected for a second term on 26 May 2024.
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Early life and education
Nausėda was born on 19 May 1964 in the port city Klaipėda on the Baltic coast. He started his secondary studies at the Klaipėda 5th Secondary School and also attended the Klaipėda Music School where he sang in the boys’ choir "Gintarėlis".
After secondary school he moved to Vilnius where he studied Industrial Economics from 1982 to 1987 at Vilnius University, he continued his studies as a post-graduate student of Economics from 1987 until 1989. While at university Nausėda registered to join the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1988 at the age of 24. From 1987 to 2004 he hosted occasional economics lecturers at the University.
From 1990 to 1992 he did a practice at the University of Mannheim in Germany under the DAAD scholarship. He defended his PhD thesis "Income Policy Under Inflation and Stagflation" in 1993. Upon returning to Lithuania, he worked for the Lithuanian Competition Council as Head of the Financial Markets Department until 1994. Since 2009 he has been an associate professor at Vilnius University Business School.
Professional and political career
Having completed his studies, from 1992 to 1993 he worked for the Research Institute for Economics and Privatization. From 1993 to 1994 he worked for the Lithuanian Competition Council as a head of the Financial Markets Department. From 1994 to 2000 he worked at the Bank of Lithuania, initially in the department regulating the commercial banks and later as a director of the Monetary Policy Department. From 2000 to 2008 he was a chief economist and adviser to the chairman of AB Vilniaus Bankas. From 2008 to 2018 he was the financial analyst as well as chief adviser and later the chief economist for the SEB bankas president.
In 2004, he supported the election campaign of the former Lithuanian president Valdas Adamkus.
Presidency (2019– present)
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On 17 September 2018, Nausėda announced his candidacy for the 2019 Lithuanian presidential election. He finished just 2,000 votes behind former Finance Minister Ingrida Šimonytė in the first round, and defeated her in the runoff with 66 percent of the vote.
He was officially inaugurated on 12 July. Nausėda presented acting Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis's candidacy to continue his duties on 18 July. By the time he had spent a month in office, Nausėda was considered to be the most trusted politician in Lithuania according to polls conducted by the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT).
Personal life
Nausėda's father, Antanas Nausėda (1929–2022), was an engineer. His mother, Stasė Nausėdienė (1931–2014), was a physics and mathematics teacher from the village of Lazdininkai. His sister, Vilija (born 1959), is an economist. In 1990, he married Diana Nausėdienė. They have two daughters. In addition to his native Lithuanian, Gitanas Nausėda speaks German, English and Russian. Since 1997, he has been collecting antique books.
Honours
National honours
Lithuania: Medal of Merit to Neringa's Municipality (2016)- Lithuania: Grand Master and Grand Cross with Golden Chain of the Order of Vytautas the Great (12 July 2019)
Foreign honours
Romania: Order of the Star of Romania (2022)
Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (24 October 2022)
Ukraine: Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class (23 August 2021)
Poland: Order of the White Eagle (5 July 2023)
Honorary doctorates
Japan: Gifu University (24 October 2019)
See also
In Spanish: Gitanas Nausėda para niños
