Gitanas Nauseda
President of Lithuania
Education
- Faculty of Industrial Economics -
- Bachelor's degree in economics -
Overview
Gitanas Nausėda is a Lithuanian politician, economist and banker who is serving as the ninth and current president of Lithuania since 2019. He was previously director of monetary policy at the Bank of Lithuania from 1996 to 2000 and chief economist to the chairman of SEB bankas from 2008 to 2018.
Early Life
Gitanas Nausėda born 19 May 1964
From 1982 to 1987 he studied in Vilnius University, Faculty of Industrial Economics and from 1987 to 1989 in the Faculty of Economics.
In 1988 Gitanas joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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. Since 2009 he is an associate professor at Vilnius University Business School.
Career
- Lithuania - President
