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Vice-Minister V. Verbickas

Vidmantas Verbickas
Vidmantas Verbickas

Vice-Minister

Responsibilities:

 

  • Relations with countries in the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania
  • Formulation and implementation of migration management policy
  • Relations with Jewish communities around the world, issues related to Holocaust remembrance and Jewish cultural heritage
  • Strategic communication, public diplomacy, shaping Lithuania's image, and information resilience

 

Date and place of birth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 October 1971, Kaunas, Lithuania

 

 

EDUCATION

1989–2004

 

 

Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Management, Production Management Studies, Bachelor of Engineering

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

 

2025 – present

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Minister

2024 – 2025

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, External Economic Relations and Economic Security Policy Department, Economic Security Policy Division, Head of Division

2019 – 2023

Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania in Chicago, United States, Advisor

2017 – 2019

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, External Economic Relations and Economic Security Policy Department, Advisor

2013 – 2017

Embassy of Lithuanian in Minsk, Belarus, Commercial Attaché

2009 – 2013

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Economic Relations Promotion Division

2005 – 2009

Embassy of Lithuanian in Minsk, Belarus

2001 – 2005

Embassy of Lithuanian in Warsaw, Poland

1998 – 2001

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Economic Relations Promotion Division

INTERNSHIPS

 

The Centre for Economic and Commercial Studies, Madrid, Spain

Economic Planning Agency, Economic Research Institute, Economic Development Policy, Tokyo, Japan

   
Marital status

Married, four children

Languages

English, Russian, Polish