Laima Andrikienė | |
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 Official portrait, 2023 | |
| Member of theEuropean Court of Auditors forLithuania | |
| Assumed office 16 November 2022 | |
| President | Tony Murphy |
| Preceded by | Rimantas Šadžius |
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| Born | (1958-01-01)1 January 1958 (age 67) |
| Political party | European People's Party |
| Education | Doctorate in Economics |
| Alma mater | Vilnius University,University of Manchester,Georgetown University |
| Occupation | Politician |
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Laima Liucija Andrikienė (born 1 January 1958) is aLithuanian politician serving as member of theEuropean Court of Auditors since November 2022.
Andrikienė is signatory of theAct of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, member ofReconstituent Seimas (1990–1992), former and current member of theSeimas (1992–2000, 2020-current), former chair of Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Seimas, former vice-president of theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,[1] former Minister of Industry and Trade, former minister of European Affairs, and former member of theEuropean Parliament (2004–2014, 2016–2019) for theHomeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives) andEuropean People’s Party, respectively.
Andrikienė was born inDruskininkai on 1 January 1958. In 1980 Andrikienė graduated fromVilnius University with a degree in Economics and Math. She worked as an engineer, an later as a research fellow, at the Lithuanian Institute for Research of Agricultural Economy. She successfully concluded doctoral studies in 1994. Andrikiene spent time as a Fellow atUniversity of Manchester and as aPew Economic Freedom Fellow atGeorgetown University.[2]
In 1990 Andrikienė was elected to theSupreme Council of Lithuania and was a signatory to theAct of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. In theelections in 1992, she was elected as the member of theSixth Seimas through the electoral list ofSąjūdis.[3] In 1996, representingHomeland Union, she was elected foranother term of the Seimas in Pramonės (17) single-seat constituency inKaunas.[2]
In December 1996 Andrikienė was appointed the Minister of the Industry and Trade for a short time. Later same month she was appointed a Minister of European Affairs.[2]
Andrikienė left the Homeland Union at the end of 1998 together with her then-husband and fellow member of the SeimasVidmantas Žiemelis. In 1999 they founded a short-lived Homeland People’s Party.[2] In 2001 she joined the Lithuanian Union of the Right and in 2003 rejoined theHomeland Union.
In 2004 Andrikienė was elected to theEuropean Parliament for Lithuania. She was elected from the electoral list of theHomeland Union and sat with theEuropean People's Party. She was reelected in 2009 and was MEP up until 2014.[4][5] As from 30 May 2016, Laima Liucija Andrikienė replacedGabrielius Landsbergis (who stood down and took part in campaigning before2016 Lithuanian parliamentary election) as an MEP for her third term. She served up until 2019.[6]She was a Member of theCommittee on International Trade, Member ofSub-Committee on Security and Defense, Substitute Member ofForeign Affairs Committee, 1st Vice Chair of the Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan, EU-Uzbekistan and EU-Tajikistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and for relations withTurkmenistan andMongolia and a Substitute Member of the Delegation for the relations with theUnited States.[7]
In 2018 she won the International Trade Award of the Parliament Magazine’s Annual MEP Awards.[8]
In2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Andrikienė was elected to the Seimas. She was confirmed Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in January 2022.[9]
Andrikienė started a 6-year term as one of 27 members of theEuropean Court of Auditors in November 2022.
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