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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
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
