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Gitanas Nausėda (born 19 May 1964) is a Lithuanian politician and the President of Lithuania, elected on 26 May 2019.
From 1982 to 1987 he studied in Vilnius University, Faculty of Industrial Economics and from 1987 to 1989 in the Faculty of Economics. From 1990 to 1992 he did a practice at the University of Mannheim in Germany under the DAAD scholarship. He defended his PhD thesis "Income Policy Under Inflation and Stagflation" in 1993. Since 2009 he is an associate professor at Vilnius University Business School.
Having completed his studies, from 1992 to 1993 he worked for the Research Institute for Economics and Privatization. From 1993 to 1994 he worked for the Lithuanian Competition Council as a head of the Financial Markets Department. From 1994 to 2000 he worked at the Bank of Lithuania, initially in the department regulating the commercial banks and later as a director of the Monetary Policy Department. From 2000 to 2008 he was a chief economist and adviser to the chairman of AB Vilniaus Bankas. From 2008 to 2018 he was the financial analyst as well as chief adviser and later the chief economist for the SEB Bankas president.
Leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) Ramūnas Karbauskis admitted defeat of presidential candidate Ignas Vėgėlė in the first round. The party had endorsed lawyer Vėgėlė, an independent candidate, in Lithuania’s presidential election held on 12 May.
Incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda and Conservative nominee Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė will face off against each other in a run-off presidential vote in two weeks, just like five years ago.
If incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda faced Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė in the second round of 2024 presidential elections, he would secure a landslide victory, shows a review of two polls published by the news website 15min.lt. The next presidential race will take place in May 2024.
The latest poll shows that the majority of Lithuanians have the most favourable opinion about incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda.
The international situation is growing complicated more than three weeks after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, says President Gitanas Nausėda, commenting on divergent views at the United Nations.
Prezidentas Gitanas Nausėda neabejoja, kad Europos Sąjungos (ES) narės sutars dėl šiuo metu diskutuojamos finansinės paramos Ukrainai ir ji bus suteikta. Anot šalies vadovo, šiomis dienomis vykstančiame Europos Vadovų Tarybos (EVT) susitikime kalbama apie 50 mlrd. eurų paramos fondo sudarymą ir iešk...
Pirmadienį prezidentas Gitanas Nausėda su komanda dirbo Kelmėje, kur susitiko su Kelmės rajono savivaldybės meru Ildefonsu Petkevičiumi ir rajono vadovybe
Šiandien Prahoje vyks Europos politinės bendruomenės susitikimas, o rytoj – neformali Europos Vadovų Taryba. Joje didžiausias dėmesys bus skirtas Europos Sąjungos apsirūpinimo energijos šaltiniais, kritinės infrastruktūros apsaugos ir ekonomikos klausimams. Prezidentas Gitanas Nausėda Prahoje ketina...
Ieškant sprendimų, kaip sumažinti rusų turistų srautus Europos Sąjungoje, Lietuvos prezidentas Gitanas Nausėda sako, kad Europos Komisija (EK) yra „mūsų pusėje“.
Prezidentas Gitanas Nausėda ketvirtadienį Prezidento rūmų Baltojoje salėje pasveikino Europos čempiones – Lietuvos jaunių merginų krepšinio rinktinę.
Baltijos valstybės ir Lenkija galėtų būti alternatyviu keliu ukrainietiškiems grūdams, Rusijai sutrikdžius grūdų eksportą iš Odesos, sako į Davoso pasaulio ekonomikos forumo susitikimą atvykęs prezidentas Gitanas Nausėda.
Jau šioje Seimo rudens sesijoje galimai bus imtasi mokestinių pakeitimų, pirmadienį po frakcijų atstovų susitikimo su prezidentu Gitanu Nausėda sakė jo patarėjas Vaidas Augustinavičius. Kaip aiškino, turėtų būti peržiūrimas pajamų apmokestinimas, didinamas neapmokestinamas pajamų dydis. Dalis pakeit...
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Monday he has signed a decree to approve the makeup of the center-right Cabinet of Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has rejected the new center-right coalition's candidates for transport and agriculture ministers.
The priorities of Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Arvydas Anusauskas, candidate for the country's national defense minister, match, Antanas Bubnelis, spokesman for the president, says.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has doubts about some of the center-right coalition's candidates for ministers, his spokesman said on Tuesday, but gave no names.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda identified getting the coronavirus pandemic under control as the immediate challenge facing the new government as he nominated Ingrida Simonyte for the post of prime minister.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says he raised the issue of human rights during his Tuesday meeting with visiting Polish President Andrzej Duda and called on him to seek dialogue with the public amid the ongoing protests in Poland against the abortion ban.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda had an intestinal polyp removed at Santara Clinics in Vilnius end the end of last week. The president now feels well, his spokesman Antanas Bubnelis told BNS on Wednesday.
