Ambassador Rolandas Kri??iūnas took up his duties as Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the OECD on 4 September 2024.
Ambassador Kri??iūnas began his diplomatic career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, working in the Department of Economic Relations from 1993 to 1994 and again from 1996 to 1998. He then served as First Secretary at the Lithuanian Embassy in the United States from 1998 to 2001.
From 2001 to 2004, he was the Director of the European Union Assistance Department at the Ministry of Finance. He then served as Secretary of the Ministry of Finance from 2004 to 2009 and as Deputy Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2012. Following this, Ambassador Kri??iūnas became Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2015.
In 2015, he was appointed as Ambassador of Lithuania to the United States and Mexico, serving until 2020. He then worked as Advisor to the Prime Minister and First Deputy Chancellor of the Government of Lithuania from 2021 to 2024.
Ambassador Kri??iūnas holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Exact Sciences Faculty of Vytautas the Great University and a Master’s degree from the School of Economics of the Ohio State University. He is proficient in English, Russian and French.
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This biography was provided by the Delegation of Lithuania?to the OECD.