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Ambassador

Ambassador

AMBASSADOR

DARIUS GAIDYS

Date of birth

17 April, 1968

Place of birth

Vilnius, Lithuania

Education

1986 – 1991

School of Law, Vilnius University (Lithuania)

1999

University College London, UK, Eastern and Central European diplomat courses on EU practice

1992

Stanford University (California, US), Trainings for young diplomats of Eastern and Central Europe

Online learning

 

  • The Emergence of Modern Middle East, Part I and II, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
  • High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation, Northwestern University (USA)
  • Leadership Communication for Maximum Impact: Storytelling, Northwestern University (USA)
  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory and Practice, Universiteit Leiden (Netherlands)
  • Financial Markets, Yale University (USA)
  • Sports and Society, Duke University (USA)

Work experience

From July 2022

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania in Singapore

2019 - 2022

Ambassador–at–Large for Digital Affairs, IT Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2015 - 2019                     

Consul General of Lithuania in Los Angeles (USA)

2014 - 2015

Ambassador–at–Large for EU Baltic Sea Strategy, Ministry of |Foreign Affairs

2011 - 2014

Charge d‘Affaires a.i., Embassy of Lithuania in Bulgaria and Kosovo

2006 - 2011

Director of Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2004-2006

Deputy Director of the State and Diplomatic Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2001 - 2004

Counsellor (Economic Affairs), Embassy of Lithuania in the United Kingdom

1997 - 2001

Head, Economic Treaties Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1993 - 1997

Consul, Consulate General of Lithuania in New York (USA)

1991 - 1993

2nd Secretary, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2020

Vytautas Magnus University lecturer (subject - Protocol)

2008-2010

Institute of International Relations and Political Science (subject - Protocol and Organization of Diplomacy)

Other

State Decorations

2009 - Commander, Order of Isabella La Catolica (Spain)

2008 - Commander, Order for Merits (Chile)

2008 - Grand Commander, Order of Oranje – Nassau (Netherlands)

2007 - Grand Cross, Order for Merits (Portugal)

2006 - Officer, Order for Merits (Hungary)

Languages

Lithuanian, English, Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, French

Marital status

Married, two sons