Vice-Minister L. Rukštelienė

Responsibilities:

• Security policy, transatlantic relations

Education:

Vilnius University, Faculty of History

G. Marshall Centre for Security Studies

Work experience:

2022–2026 – Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Austria, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Slovenia and the Principality of Liechtenstein.

2021–2022 – Director, Department of Strategic Management and Analysis, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

2019–2021 – Head of Group, Strategic Decision Support Group, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

2016–2019 – Minister Plenipotentiary, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Lithuania to International Organisations in Vienna.

2014–2016 – Deputy Director, Department of European Countries, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

2012–2014 – Head of Division, EU Enlargement Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

2009–2012 – Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Lithuania to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna.

2006–2009 – Adviser, Department of Transatlantic Cooperation and Security Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

2003–2006 – Adviser, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Lithuania to International Organisations in Vienna.

2002–2003 – Head of the Protocol Division of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania.

1999–2002 – First Secretary, Baltic States Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

1996–1999 – Second Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Latvia.

1994–1996 – Third Secretary, CIS Countries Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

1993–1994 – Attaché, State and Diplomatic Protocol Service, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

Foreign languages:

English, Russian, German.