Ambassador Plepytė assumes office as the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs
Today, on July 15, diplomat Audra Plepytė, Lithuania's outgoing Ambassador to the United States, assumes office as the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. She will oversee matters related to transatlantic cooperation, global politics, and the global Lithuanian community.
Plepytė graduated from Vilnius University with degrees in international relations and philosophy, and studied diplomatic relations at the University of Oxford.
She began her career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994. Plepytė has served as Lithuania’s ambassador to the United States, at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations, and in Spain. She has been awarded the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania, the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit (Knight), and in 2025 received the award of the Ukrainian National Information Service.
The Vice-Minister speaks English, Spanish, Russian, and French.
With Plepytė joining, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs now has four vice-ministers – alongside former Vice-Minister of Justice Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė, former Adviser to the President Sigitas Mitkus, and the diplomat Julius Pranevičius.
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