Dr Dalia Grybauskaitė is the former President of the Republic of Lithuania. She served as President from 2009 to 2019. She was the country’s first woman President and the only President in Lithuania’s post-Soviet history to have served two consecutive terms.

Dalia Grybauskaitė previously served as European Union Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budgets (from 2004 to 2009) and as Finance Minister for Lithuania from 2001 to 2004. She was Chief Negotiator for Lithuania with the IMF and World Bank.

Dalia Grybauskaitė holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Economy from Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) State University and a Doctorate in Economics from the Moscow Academy of Public Sciences. She is also Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, at Georgetown University.