H.E. Ingrida Šimonytė

Prime Minister at Lithuania

H.E. Ingrida Šimonytė has been the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania since December 2020. She was elected as a Member of the Lithuanian Parliament (the Seimas) twice – first in 2016 and again in 2020. During her tenure in the 2016-2020 Parliament, she served on various committees, including the Committee on European Affairs, Anticorruption Commission, Commission for the Rights of People with Disabilities, and also chaired the Committee on Audit. Starting in 2013, she became a Member of the Board at the Bank of Lithuania, and concurrently held positions as a lecturer and the President of the Council of Vilnius University. H.E. Ingrida Šimonytė also served as the Minister for Finance of the Republic of Lithuania from 2009 to 2012.

Besides her political and academic responsibilities, H.E. Ingrida Šimonytė volunteered for some NGOs during the pandemic. Currently, as the Prime Minister, she remains involved in different volunteering activities aimed at helping Ukrainian families forced from their homeland due to Russia’s war against Ukraine.